I've never had a problem formatting and cloning any drive over 1tb externally. I do all my drive cloning with external eSATA drive docks though not USB, perhaps that's it?
-- MacAmbulance Sam Mullen 07747778022 [email protected] On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:52, Chris Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Crucial (www.crucial.com/uk) are selling a Crucial 256gb M4 for £124.00 - > just put one in my 15" MBP - WOW! It came with the latest firmware installed > so didn't need an upgrade. > > Swap the disks and put the old internal in an external box, boot from that > disk then do the clone - much more reliable. Probably won't make much > difference with a 256gb disk but 1tb disks don't like to be > partitioned/formatted/cloned outside them machine then installed, dunno why, > they just don't. > > Chris Webb . Principal > MacService > Woodside, Brightling Road > Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5EL > t: 01580 881212 > f: 01580 881313 > m: 07770 960632 > e: [email protected] > w: www.macservice.co.uk > facebook: www.facebook.com/macserviceuk > > > > > On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:15, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've replaced hard drives with SSD on two MacBooks and it is easy enough. >> >> If you get an USB enclosure you can put the 320GB drive in it and use it as >> an external drive after cloning the disk to an SSD. >> >> www.dabs.com are selling the 256GB Crucial M4 SSD for £140 this week >> >> Improved startup speed, reduced app loading times and all round snappiness >> made it a worthwhile investment for me. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tony >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:04, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Normally it's just a case of putting the SSD into an external USB enclosure >>> (£5 from ebay) then using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone all the >>> data across. You can enable TRIM afterwards. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
