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MacbookPro optibay+ssd+reinstall Lion!
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<blockquote data-quote="Shootist" data-source="post: 1376678" data-attributes="member: 232297"><p>Ok your plan is good and correct. That is exactly what I did.</p><p>But what you can do is get both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper. They are both drive cloning software programs.</p><p>Also get yourself a SATA to USB adapter, either and Enclosure or just and Adapter.</p><p>Connect the SSD to the adapter/enclosure and boot the computer with the SSD attached and partition and format it as one partition with the format of Mac Extended (Journaled) and name whatever you like (you can even name it Macintosh HD iof you like). Then use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the Recovery HD partition to the SSD. CCC has a help file to explain *** to do this. Then use SuperDuper to Clone the operating system from the orignal drive to the SSD.</p><p>Then take your system apart and make the hardware changes.</p><p>When you are all done it should boot right into the OS on the SSD. But if it doesn't, for some reason, and it boots to the old drive open System Preferences and then Startup Disk and select the SSD as the startup dirve then click Restart.</p><p>You can then either re-partition/format the old drive or leave it as is.</p><p></p><p>Good Luck & Best Wishes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shootist, post: 1376678, member: 232297"] Ok your plan is good and correct. That is exactly what I did. But what you can do is get both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper. They are both drive cloning software programs. Also get yourself a SATA to USB adapter, either and Enclosure or just and Adapter. Connect the SSD to the adapter/enclosure and boot the computer with the SSD attached and partition and format it as one partition with the format of Mac Extended (Journaled) and name whatever you like (you can even name it Macintosh HD iof you like). Then use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the Recovery HD partition to the SSD. CCC has a help file to explain *** to do this. Then use SuperDuper to Clone the operating system from the orignal drive to the SSD. Then take your system apart and make the hardware changes. When you are all done it should boot right into the OS on the SSD. But if it doesn't, for some reason, and it boots to the old drive open System Preferences and then Startup Disk and select the SSD as the startup dirve then click Restart. You can then either re-partition/format the old drive or leave it as is. Good Luck & Best Wishes. [/QUOTE]
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