Great, I am loving my new retina MacBook Pro with SSD drive boy now there is speed.:)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Micou Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 10:43 PM To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Upgrading MacBook Pro HD 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup ________________________________ If you are not the intended addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to internet email for messages of this kind.
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