Hey guys, not to thread-jack, but how do you go about upgrading a hard drive on a Mac? My brother's got several devices I can use to convert SATA to USB, but being strictly a Windows guy, he's got no advise for me about how to clone a hard drive. How would you do it?
Also, would you recommend one of those hybrid drives? I've got a Macbook 4.1 running Snow Leopard and I'm wondering if it will offer any significant performance or efficiency upgrade over my stock Hitachi 120 GB drive.
Thanks!
Having done owc ssd hd upgrade today, it was a breeze.
step 1 is get your new drive as external one with either enclosure or adapter
step 2 is to clean install your oxs to your external drive, press 'option' key after boot up.
step 3 is to copy over your data, file folders what not to your external drive using migration assistant, it is resides in disk utility and boot from external drive, install software updates to it.
step 4 is swap your drives in with new, out with old.
few weeks ago sound like a confusing one to me, here are the links one from owc.
the other from apple.
How to Transfer Your Data From Your Old Drive to a New Drive
Mac OS X v10.6: How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac
on migration assistant concentrate with 'Time Machine backup or other disk' option.
Beware if you install with lion osx install from usb thumb may take 2 hrs and system upates will take another 2 hours, it is marathon one because of my slow connection, next
time might go to library for system updates.
Hope this helps.