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    MBP Hard drive replacement

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by steve51, Oct 29, 2010.

  1. steve51

    steve51 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just purchased a Seagate Momentus hard drive for my 15" MBP. Is there an easy way to copy / clone my current hard drive onto the new drive including my boot camp partition. I have a drive enclosure so i can connect it through the USB ports. I want to be able to copy it and just swap it into the MBP if possible.
     
    steve51, Oct 29, 2010
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  2. SP Forsythe

    SP Forsythe Notebook Evangelist

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    Easy?

    It doesn't get much easier than this.. Superduper!
    It came with my Apricorn SATA to USB adapter/connector. Works great. The adapter and software was $39.00

    SuperDuper!
     
    SP Forsythe, Oct 29, 2010
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    ifti Undiscovered

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    Another one for SuperDuper here.
    easy and does the job perfect.
     
    ifti, Oct 29, 2010
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  4. steve51

    steve51 Notebook Enthusiast

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    It looks like Super Duper will be used to make the swap! Thanks for the replies.
     
    steve51, Oct 31, 2010
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  5. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Just to bump this up, any good free alternatives?
     
    Colton, Nov 4, 2010
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  6. s2odin

    s2odin Merrica!

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    Superduper is free, the registered version is just a bit beefier, offering different backup options.

    Carbon Copy Cloner is a totally free alternative.
     
    s2odin, Nov 4, 2010
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  7. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    Doesn't Time Machine kind of let you do the same thing too?
     
    Wolfpup, Nov 5, 2010
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  8. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    Time Machine is a data backup program only, it does not clone or create a bootable backup. You can do a final backup, insert the new drive into the MBP, boot from CD and then do a Time Machine restore but the last step is quite slow compared to just doing a direct drive clone using an external box and then swapping the drives when done.

    That said, I've also found both SuperDuper and CCC both much easier to use in creating clones than I ever had with Ghost or TrueImage on MS.
     
    ClearSkies, Nov 5, 2010
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  9. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    But can't you just reinstall the OS and software and then restore from Time Machine (which I guess is some extra steps)
     
    Wolfpup, Nov 5, 2010
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  10. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    See above - we posted about the same time.
     
    ClearSkies, Nov 5, 2010
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  11. ajreynol

    ajreynol Notebook Virtuoso

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    I <3 Carbon Copy Cloner.

    It was so easy. So so easy.
     
    ajreynol, Nov 5, 2010
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