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The Intro:
Hello to everyone at MacForums! I've been using these very useful forums for the last two years ever since I made the switch.
After a rather unsuccessful scouring of the net I couldn't find out if upgrading a MacBook's hard drive using SuperDuper installed on a different MacBook is possible.
The Situation:
I'm a student and for my year out on placement I've decided to start up my own computer repair business being "the mac guy" and my business partner being "the PC guy".
Today we received our first call about MacBook hard drive upgrade.
Now if the customer was using Leopard it would be a piece of cake because I would sell the customer an external hard drive and use Time Machine to do the rest.
Being in the market I can predict this sort of situation where MacBook owners with Tiger want to upgrade from their 60GB drives is going occur more frequently as my business's turnover increases.
Many of the articles about upgrading a MacBook hdd recommend SuperDuper and it looks like a cracking piece of kit! However I don't want to have to make my customers buy SuperDuper every time. I want to buy it and use it to make the deal more attractive to customers because I don't have to charge them $30 odd per purchase.
The Setup:
I own a MacBook of my own. I would like to remove the original 60GB hdd from the customers Mac and replace it with a 160GB (best price point in the UK at the moment). I would like to put SuperDuper on my MacBook and then set up two cadddies (I have too many of these ) plugged into my two USB ports, with both the new 160GB and older 60GB drives in each caddy respectively. (sorry about the grammar)
From here is it possible to copy exactly the data from the older 60GB drive to the newer 160GB so that it becomes a usable (bootable) drive? I ask this because I see that SuperDuper will copy the original partition of 60GB which can then be put it on the 160GB via USB. Does that mean the customer will be left with two partitions of 60GB and 100GB on the new drive?
I am sure that SuperDuper has been designed so that it doesn't give you this problem but I would like to have my doubts cleared.
The ideal outcome:
I would like the customer to walk away with identical MacBook to the one they brought to me apart from the capacity increase on the internal HDD from 60GB to 160GB. Settings/Preferences/Files/Folders/Playlists/Softwares Trials - Everything 100% as they gave it to me.
Thank you in advance for reading this long post. I have to be sure.
Thank you in advance for any help you provide.
Hello to everyone at MacForums! I've been using these very useful forums for the last two years ever since I made the switch.
After a rather unsuccessful scouring of the net I couldn't find out if upgrading a MacBook's hard drive using SuperDuper installed on a different MacBook is possible.
The Situation:
I'm a student and for my year out on placement I've decided to start up my own computer repair business being "the mac guy" and my business partner being "the PC guy".
Today we received our first call about MacBook hard drive upgrade.
Now if the customer was using Leopard it would be a piece of cake because I would sell the customer an external hard drive and use Time Machine to do the rest.
Being in the market I can predict this sort of situation where MacBook owners with Tiger want to upgrade from their 60GB drives is going occur more frequently as my business's turnover increases.
Many of the articles about upgrading a MacBook hdd recommend SuperDuper and it looks like a cracking piece of kit! However I don't want to have to make my customers buy SuperDuper every time. I want to buy it and use it to make the deal more attractive to customers because I don't have to charge them $30 odd per purchase.
The Setup:
I own a MacBook of my own. I would like to remove the original 60GB hdd from the customers Mac and replace it with a 160GB (best price point in the UK at the moment). I would like to put SuperDuper on my MacBook and then set up two cadddies (I have too many of these ) plugged into my two USB ports, with both the new 160GB and older 60GB drives in each caddy respectively. (sorry about the grammar)
From here is it possible to copy exactly the data from the older 60GB drive to the newer 160GB so that it becomes a usable (bootable) drive? I ask this because I see that SuperDuper will copy the original partition of 60GB which can then be put it on the 160GB via USB. Does that mean the customer will be left with two partitions of 60GB and 100GB on the new drive?
I am sure that SuperDuper has been designed so that it doesn't give you this problem but I would like to have my doubts cleared.
The ideal outcome:
I would like the customer to walk away with identical MacBook to the one they brought to me apart from the capacity increase on the internal HDD from 60GB to 160GB. Settings/Preferences/Files/Folders/Playlists/Softwares Trials - Everything 100% as they gave it to me.
Thank you in advance for reading this long post. I have to be sure.
Thank you in advance for any help you provide.