MacBook - New Internal Hard Drive File Transfer

mav · mav #1 (**permalink**)

12-30-2008, 04:43 PM

Planning on getting a new Internal Hard Drive for my new aluminum macbook.

I was wondering if I could transfer all the Data from my old Internal hard drive, to a new one using an external hard drive enclosure, and then boot from it without having to buy some sort of drive adapter such as this:

Newer Technology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter
Newer Technology Universal Drive Adapter -... (U2NV2SPATA) at OWC

-mav

louishen · louishen #2 (**permalink**)

12-30-2008, 05:08 PM

that drive adaptor would be an option, otherwise you will need a sata / USB 2 enclosure

OWC Mercury On-The-Go 2.5" Portable USB 2.0 E... (MOTGSU2 ) at OWC

Anyway, you could clone your old drive to the new one using SuperDuper and it will be bootable

mav · mav #3 (**permalink**)

12-30-2008, 05:30 PM

Awesome, then I can keep my old drive with the enclosure.

Also, I was planning on getting this:

320GB 2.5" Seagate Momentus 7200.3 7200RPM **SATA** Notebook drive with 16MB Cache

Would it be more beneficial to just get a 500GB/1 TB External Hard Drive with enclosures such as these:

1.0TB Western Digital Caviar Green "GreenPower" SATA-II HDD 32MB Cache

or

1.0TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA II 7200RPM 32MB W/ Perpendicular Drive Technology

-mav

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Member Since: Dec 30, 2008 Posts: 5	12-30-2008, 04:43 PM Planning on getting a new Internal Hard Drive for my new aluminum macbook. I was wondering if I could transfer all the Data from my old Internal hard drive, to a new one using an external hard drive enclosure, and then boot from it without having to buy some sort of drive adapter such as this: Newer Technology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter Newer Technology Universal Drive Adapter -... (U2NV2SPATA) at OWC -mav
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