Putting new HD on MacBook, want to duplicate old HD to new one.

[derekw]

same situation, with an added question.

once the larger drive (mine is 250GB) is swapped into the macbook, i want to use the old drive (120GB) as an external drive to store a backup clone of the new drive. but since it's smaller, it can't hold the entire 250GB.

my plan is to have 2 partitions on the new drive (120GB bootup volume + 130GB for other non-back up files). this would allow the 120GB bootup volume to be cloned to the external 120GB drive.

question: when u said 'name it the same', are u referring to naming the two 120GB *volume* the same, e.g. "Macintosh HD"? and all the other names can be different (i.e. the 2 *disk* names and the *volume* name for the non-back up files)?

thanks

Originally Posted by dnanian

Yes, you can do #1. Just make sure the drive is properly partitioned using the "GUID" Partition scheme (see the "Options" button in the Partition tab of Disk Utility) before you copy to it.

Also -- name it the same as the original drive.