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    HDD exchange

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by bczera, Nov 24, 2008.

  1. bczera

    bczera Notebook Geek

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    Hi! I'm changing my MBP's hdd with a WD 320gb. What I am looking for is a program that'll let me make a bootable copy of my actual hdd, so i don't have to go trought all that reinstallation process :p . can you give me some names please?


    PS: Excuse my english, i'm not very good with it. (south-american =P)
     
    bczera, Nov 24, 2008
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  2. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    Use SuperDuper with an external HDD enclosure, which will copy your current HDD completely over onto the WD drive.

    There are multiple HowTo videos on YouTube on how to do this for the Mac if you search for them. Good luck.
     
    ClearSkies, Nov 24, 2008
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  3. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Just clone your HD using Disk Utility.
     
    Budding, Nov 24, 2008
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  4. diggy

    diggy Notebook Deity

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    Yep, easy enough to do
     
    diggy, Nov 24, 2008
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