Hi all, I am in need of some expert advice. I am REALLY new to the Mac world and having a hard time deciphering what exactly I need to do to install a larger hard drive and keep all the contents of the old one. I have a Macbook Intel core 2 duo with a 60 gig and im going to a 250 gig. I found the walkthrough on ifixit.com for the actual changing of the drives but I am seriously confused as to how I can clone the drive and put it on the new one. Been a PC guy for a long time so I think I may be making this harder than it needs to be.
I have read dozens of threads on this but people are all over the place as to the best way to do it. So I thought I would post what I have in my possession and see what you guys have to say.
So heres what I have:
-Macbook with Snow Leopard installed with nonfunctioning optical drive (getting new one with new hard drive though)
-The new 250gig HD
-750gig external drive (USB only, no Firewire and its the desktop size drive not the laptop size)
-The the OS X 10.5 OEM disks and the new Snow Leopard disk.
-Carbon Copy Cloner downloaded
I have read dozens of threads on this but people are all over the place as to the best way to do it. So I thought I would post what I have in my possession and see what you guys have to say.
So heres what I have:
-Macbook with Snow Leopard installed with nonfunctioning optical drive (getting new one with new hard drive though)
-The new 250gig HD
-750gig external drive (USB only, no Firewire and its the desktop size drive not the laptop size)
-The the OS X 10.5 OEM disks and the new Snow Leopard disk.
-Carbon Copy Cloner downloaded