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- Apr 20, 2009
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- Calgary
- Your Mac's Specs
- 15" MBP
First a bit of background. I am a Switcher, using a 15 inch Macbook Pro for about 5 months now. While Macs have been popular with my Dad and Sister since the mid-1980's, this is MY first Mac. I am actually a Windows Server and Network Administrator.
Anyways. Last night I decided my Mac could use more hard drive space, not to mention the claimed speed increases from upgrading from a 5400rpm drive to a 7200 (MacLife magazine, Oct 2009 pg 31). I went out and purchased the Seagate 500GB Momentus 7400.4 SATA drive.
After making sure I had an up-to-date Time Machine backup, I removed the old hard drive and installed the new one. Then simply booted from the Snow Leopard disc and let it install itself.
On it's first bootup, it prompted me if I wanted to restore from a backup. I chose to restore from Time Machine. It then asked me what I wanted to restore, and had checkboxes for User Data, Applications, Settings. I checked the boxes and let it do it's thing.
When it completed, it booted up to my familiar login prompt. Everything was intact - my desktop, documents, applications, iTunes and iPhoto library, everything. It was as if I was running on my original hard drive, only now with a ton more available hard drive space.
Is that a true success story or what? It couldn't possibly have been more simple.
Anyways. Last night I decided my Mac could use more hard drive space, not to mention the claimed speed increases from upgrading from a 5400rpm drive to a 7200 (MacLife magazine, Oct 2009 pg 31). I went out and purchased the Seagate 500GB Momentus 7400.4 SATA drive.
After making sure I had an up-to-date Time Machine backup, I removed the old hard drive and installed the new one. Then simply booted from the Snow Leopard disc and let it install itself.
On it's first bootup, it prompted me if I wanted to restore from a backup. I chose to restore from Time Machine. It then asked me what I wanted to restore, and had checkboxes for User Data, Applications, Settings. I checked the boxes and let it do it's thing.
When it completed, it booted up to my familiar login prompt. Everything was intact - my desktop, documents, applications, iTunes and iPhoto library, everything. It was as if I was running on my original hard drive, only now with a ton more available hard drive space.
Is that a true success story or what? It couldn't possibly have been more simple.