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Use old hard drive as external to add existing data to new hard drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="~TheProxy~" data-source="post: 995554" data-attributes="member: 142533"><p>a new hdd showed up in the mail, spent weeks stressing over ways to do the backup</p><p></p><p>in the end, i put the old drive in an enclosure that i pulled apart, then when installing again from the dvd, it asked "already got a mac" or something similar, plugged the drive in the usb and navigated to the drive, and whammo, all settings and files trasnfered over,</p><p></p><p>all i needed was software updates and that to bring back upto speed from the time of the dvd release,</p><p></p><p>so yeah don't need to backup your drive if you can externally plug it into the mac during installation with your new drive physically in the mac</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="~TheProxy~, post: 995554, member: 142533"] a new hdd showed up in the mail, spent weeks stressing over ways to do the backup in the end, i put the old drive in an enclosure that i pulled apart, then when installing again from the dvd, it asked "already got a mac" or something similar, plugged the drive in the usb and navigated to the drive, and whammo, all settings and files trasnfered over, all i needed was software updates and that to bring back upto speed from the time of the dvd release, so yeah don't need to backup your drive if you can externally plug it into the mac during installation with your new drive physically in the mac [/QUOTE]
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