Group, Procrastination should be my middle name. A year ago, plus a few months, I had every intention of upgrading my MBP with a new larger, faster HD. I had bought the new drive, and I came to the group for advice, which, like always, was very helpful. But I sat and continued to use the slow and crippled, due to lack of space, laptop. Why?? Luckily, I didn't wait until I had a disaster. For some reason this weekend, I found myself doing all the things needed to make the change. I'm happy to report (oh, please, don't let this jinx it) all went smoothly. I used SuperDuper to make a backup copy of the old drive- took MBP apart- installed new drive- put MBP back together- plugged in USB external HD with SuperDuper on it- booted up from that- formatted new drive- told SDuper to copy from external HD to new blank drive and it worked. I can tell it is running faster now and with the extra space, I can bring iPhoto back internally, instead of having it on another external. Life is good, even if I'm a little slow making it happen sometimes. Bill Micou
Sent from my micro sub meson electronic component On May 27, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Nora Probasco <[email protected]> wrote: > I did this just a couple of months ago. I installed the new hard drive, > loaded Lion, then used my portable hard drive that backs up my computer with > Time Machine and reloaded everything onto my computer. No problems at all. > Worked like a charm! > > Nora > > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Dan Crutcher <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bill, >> >> I have done this over and over, NEVER going from Lion to Lion so I suspect >> that all will go fine, boy trying to go from Snow Leopard using Migration >> just won't cut it.....learned that the hard way and the guys at the Apple >> store confirmed it after I had gotten into a mess. >> >> If I were doing what you intend I would put the new drive in the MBP, put >> the old one in the enclosure, install Lion (I assume by downloading, or with >> the thumb drive) on the new drive (after formatting as you say) and then >> when booting up the first time it will ask if you want to migrate from >> another machine or TimeMachine I would then choose the old drive in the >> enclosure. If going from Lion to Lion works as well as going from Snow >> Leopard to Snow Leopard it should be a smooth transaction. >> >> John >> >> >> >> > My 2007 MBP has been giving me hints that it's hard drive won't make it >> > through the summer, so I plan on switching it out with a new one. I am >> > getting a Western Digital 320GB, to replace the 120GB. I have also >> > ordered an enclosure that I can put the old one in after I transfer them. >> > My concern is making the data transfer. Do I first just connect the old >> > one (still in the MBP) to the new one in the enclosure with a usb cable >> > and use Migration Assistant on the Mac? I know I'll need to format the new >> > one as Journaling something to be Mac friendly, but do I have to put Lion >> > on the new one before I 'Migrate'? Or does Lion get moved over too? Since >> > I upgraded to 10.7.xx, I don't have an install disc (because I downloaded >> > it), so do I ...? ...go to the app store and somehow reinstall from >> > previous purchases? How can I make the new drive as clean as possible? >> > Looking forward to doing this surgery this Holiday weekend. As always, I >> > appreciate anyone's help and advice. >> > >> > Bill Micou >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > MacGroup mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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