Shirt Pocket Discussions  
    Home netTunes launchTunes SuperDuper! Buy Now Support Discussions About Shirt Pocket    

Go Back   Shirt Pocket Discussions > SuperDuper! > General

 
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #1  
Old 03-01-2007, 01:03 PM
Nigell Nigell is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 1
Help relating to replacing an internal drive

I've a MacBook Pro, and I've purchased a 160G to replace the 100G drive it came with. I just need to clarify exatly what I need to do to copy everything from the first drive to the second. I've also just bought a case for the old drive, to convert it to an external drive and I've a LaCie external firewire drive, which has stuff backed up onto it but is easily able to take the contents of the MacBook Drive onto it before copying back to the fresh hard disk.

So. . .

How do I
a) Copy the contents of the old internal drive to the external LaCie drive, before copying all that onto the new, blank internal drive.

and

b) to do this do I need to initialise the new drive with OS X, before copying stuff back across, or is copying everything back onto the MacBook all I need to do? And is SuperDuper especially good at doing that?

or

As I will theoretically have the old internal drive in a case, could I start up the MacBook with the OS X DVD (or CD) then plug in the old internal drive (which I've put in a shiny new case) and just drag everything from that to the new drive? Or should I just add the new drive, initialise it with OS X and then replace all the files that are on the old HD onto the new one?

thanks so much.

Nigel
Reply With Quote
 


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Best process to replace internal hard drive using SuperDuper!? emikysa General 26 02-09-2007 05:03 PM
Internal drive freezes while booting clone of other drive scottmccollom General 7 06-20-2006 07:43 PM
Long Hang While Copying BackerUpper General 4 06-12-2006 08:26 AM
Disable dying internal drive? mistagrrr General 1 04-16-2006 08:23 AM
backing up to replace internal drive bastokyg General 3 10-17-2005 04:21 PM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:19 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.