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Upgrade Macbook Pro Hard drive...
iMatt
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Sooooo I knew the 500gb in Macbook Pro wasn't going to last long when I bought it 3 weeks ago however a combination of bootcamp, steam and missing out on the last 10 years of PC games means I'm already looking to upgrade!
I've just bought a 1TB internal drive for it and had figured I would simply replace my existing drive with the blank one, boot with a command-R and tell it to restore from my USB time machine backup that I made last night. Assuming it can see the USB Timemachine backup this should be fine. However there are a few little niggles I'm hearing about that I'd love some light shed on!
1) There's some sort of super secret restore partion on Lion that gets around the fact it didn't come with any restore discs. Will TM back up and restore these? If not any ideas how I handle this?
2) I know TM won't backup my bootcamp partition and I'm happy with the fact I'll just reinstall win7 - however is there a quick, free and simple way of cloning and restoring my win 7 partition?
Mucho thanks in advance forumers!
I've just bought a 1TB internal drive for it and had figured I would simply replace my existing drive with the blank one, boot with a command-R and tell it to restore from my USB time machine backup that I made last night. Assuming it can see the USB Timemachine backup this should be fine. However there are a few little niggles I'm hearing about that I'd love some light shed on!
1) There's some sort of super secret restore partion on Lion that gets around the fact it didn't come with any restore discs. Will TM back up and restore these? If not any ideas how I handle this?
2) I know TM won't backup my bootcamp partition and I'm happy with the fact I'll just reinstall win7 - however is there a quick, free and simple way of cloning and restoring my win 7 partition?
Mucho thanks in advance forumers!
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Or do it the way I did when I upgraded to my new SSD. I bought an external HD case, put the new hard drive in it, ran the OSX lion installer from inside OSX on the old drive, pointed it to the external, copied everything I wanted over to the new drive, swapped the drives, formatted the old drive and now use it as an external.
EDIT - Yeah confirmed that part!
Restore From Time Machine Backup: You have a backup of your system that you want to restore. If the problems your Mac is having are serious enough that you need to erase your startup drive (perhaps using Disk Utility in recovery mode, below), or if you’ve installed a new hard drive in your Mac, this option lets you restore, from a Time Machine backup, your entire system, including the OS and all accounts, user data, and settings.
What do you need to know? Plug it in, when you reinstall the OS it'll ask if you want to use Time Machine. It's really simple. I've done it twice with my current MacBook Pro.