how to copy macbook drive to new drive?
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I agree with P. Brockhaus. SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner are great ways to make bootable clones of your existing Mac disk to a SSD. You don't really need to do a 'clean install' but you can if you want. I've installed SSDs in three Mac Minis and a MacBook Pro w/o doing a 'clean install' with no issues at all. Carbon Copy Cloner will also create and install the hidden Recovery partition onto your new SSD. SuperDuper will not. However, if you make regular bootable backups (which you should!), the Recovery partition becomes less important. If you're the type who never backs up, I would recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner for your new SSD installation as this will also put the Recovery partition on your SSD.... but your Recovery partition is not a substitute for regular backups! Regardless of how you install your new SSD, it is important to backup regularly. I find user interface on SuperDuper to be more intuitive and friendlier, but of course that's a judgement call and personal preference. The free version of SuperDuper does the 'basics' but the paid-for version unlocks some very useful features for scheduling and automating unattended bootable backups. It's reasonably priced and worth the money IMHO. Good luck!
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You can use the disk utilities built into OS X when you boot up while holding down the Option button. If you have an external dock you can use to connect the new drive via USB you can easily restore the MacnintoshHD drive to the new larger SSD, then swap the drives and you are done.
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Drive Genius also offers disk copying. My favorite, though, is Carbon Copy Cloner, especially for cloning the Recovery partition easily.
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1. Option. You can use cloning software like CLONEZILLA or Symantec Ghost, but i recommend to you make a clean install, this avoid issues or inconsistences in your actual OS-X. Only backup your personal data and transfer after you install a newest OS-X like Maverics (OS-X 10.9.??). or....2. Option: You can make a backup using TIMEMACHINE inside your OS-X...!!!! MAKE YOUR CHOICE!!!!!
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Sorry, I do not know anything about Macs. But, I would check your owners manual. The SATA connector should be the same, but the height of the drive could be an issue, it might not fit in your HDD slot. Good luck.
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No. This macBook pro uses IDE type of drive. SATA interfacewill not work.Mike
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No, use your manufacture drive tool , third party software or simply reformat existing drive
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I just installed this drive in my Mid 2012 Macbook Pro. Here's the steps I used:1. Time Machine backup to external 1 TB WD Passport Ultra. 2. Download OS from App Store and make a bootable flash drive using Lion Disc Maker 2 to reinstall Mountain Lion.3. Install new MX100 SSD. 4. Boot while holding "Option" Key5. Install Mountain Lion from flash drive. 6. Boot up and install Time Machine backup from external driveEverything is exactly how is was before I upgraded to the new MX100 SSD.
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What he's asking for is to hook up the drive and look at the device list where it will list out the model of the drive inside the enclosure. On a Mac, check Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More Info... -> System report -> Storage -> look under "Physical Drive". On Windows, probably in the Device Manager somewhere.
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My recommendation would be to get the Windows version and leave it as a single NTFS partition. Just load the included utility on your Mac so that it will read/write to an NTFS disc and use the single large partition for both platforms. Makes it easy to share files cross-platform that way.
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No. Simply plug in the drive and start copying files. It may be necessary to reformat the drive depending on your preferred file system (I reformat to "HFS+" for my Mac), but you absolutely do not to install software to use this. I believe both Judith and Vitalino are speaking of device drivers (on a Windows system), rather than the software included with the drive.
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This is basically what I did, but I just put my SSD directly into my MBP, did a clean install of Mavericks, and moved over my desired files. It had been a while since I did a clean install, so I preferred to do it this way versus a clone. Now the HDD can be an external drive.
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Well you probably should not have chosen this drive. It's not trivial to connect it to a Mac. This drive is primarily designed as an internal PC drive. Depending on the ports available on your Macbook, the best way to connect this drive is to get a drive enclosure that holds a SATA drive and has an external connector for firewire or USB. I think a newer Macbook has only thunderbolt and USB.
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This is just the case, you will need to provide the HDD (2.5in SATA (SATA, SATA II, SATA III) laptop hard drive or SSD) separately... check your MacBook's specifications.... that being said it's standard USB 2.0 connection, it will work just as any regular USB drive would.... I'm very happy with mine and it enabled me to get access to my old laptop's files and now use the case for "on-the-go"...
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I don't think you can, at least with the hardware clone feature. According to the docs it clones the partition. I have cloned a smaller drive to a larger one and then had to expand the smaller partition to take advantage of the larger drive. The cloned partition was the exact size of the original partition, not the size of the data on the original drive.But you can mount drives in here in addition to cloning them. So, if you use the device to mount the drive you could use a software based cloning solution such as Carbon Copy Cloner on the Mac to do exactly what you are attempting. I've done it many times myself.I hope that helps. I don't think you can, at least with the hardware clone feature. According to the docs it clones the partition. I have cloned a smaller drive to a larger one and then had to expand the smaller partition to take advantage of the larger drive. The cloned partition was the exact size of the original partition, not the size of the data on the original drive.But you can mount drives in here in addition to cloning them. So, if you use the device to mount the drive you could use a software based cloning solution such as Carbon Copy Cloner on the Mac to do exactly what you are... » Read More I don't think you can, at least with the hardware clone feature. According to the docs it clones the partition. I have cloned a smaller drive to a larger one and then had to expand the smaller partition to take advantage of the larger drive. The cloned partition was the exact size of the original partition, not the size of the data on the original drive.But you can mount drives in here in addition to cloning them. So, if you use the device to mount the drive you could use a software based cloning solution such as Carbon Copy Cloner on the Mac to do exactly what you are attempting. I've done it many times myself.I hope that helps. « Show Less
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It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link provided.http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link... » Read More It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link provided.http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx « Show Less
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No one has responded. My tech expert son believes that we will be able to do it. We will try this afternoon. I will hopefully be able to update you on our progress. Only other issue is that I do not have sufficient memory on my MacBook Pro right now...so we will try to transfer "through" the Mac to an external hard drive.
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I am not 100% sure but a disk drive is a disk drive. You will also need to get a Mac app called Trim Enabler because none Apple drives with not have this enable by default. You will need Carbon Copy Cloner to move your data from one drive to another.
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Can you borrow someone else's PC to copy the files over to a thumbdrive? either that or contact Macally and ask them which driver's you need.
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Yes, it essentially turns the new drive into the old one. I did this on a Acer netbook and it worked fine after swapping to the cloned drive.