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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1301382" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>G'day and welcome to the forum.</p><p></p><p>Yes. Install the SSD, not the easiest job on an iMac,and if it is 2.5" drive you will need something like an Icy Dock to mount the drive in, boot from Lion thumb drive or DVD if you made one, go into Utilities > Disk Utility and format the drive Mac OS Extended (Journalled), then into Partition, and opt for GUID setup under Options, and proceed with the install.</p><p></p><p>If you have an external or Time Machine, backup from there when the install finished. SSD drives do not take kindly to cloning from platter drives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1301382, member: 42497"] G'day and welcome to the forum. Yes. Install the SSD, not the easiest job on an iMac,and if it is 2.5" drive you will need something like an Icy Dock to mount the drive in, boot from Lion thumb drive or DVD if you made one, go into Utilities > Disk Utility and format the drive Mac OS Extended (Journalled), then into Partition, and opt for GUID setup under Options, and proceed with the install. If you have an external or Time Machine, backup from there when the install finished. SSD drives do not take kindly to cloning from platter drives. [/QUOTE]
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