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    Restoring data from old HD onto new HD

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Budding, Nov 8, 2007.

  1. Budding

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    I am strongly considering upgrading the HD on my Macbook, however there is still one major concern I have, namely how to transfer all the data from my current HD onto the new disk.

    I currently have a number of spare external USB HDs, so I was wondering whether there was a way to store an image of my old HD onto one of my USB HDs, and then restoring that image onto my new HD without having to purchase a HD enclosure.
     
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    You can. Make an image of your current drive and store it on the external drive. Swap the hard drives. After the new one is in, you can use the same program that you did the image with to restore the current drive and tell it to look for the image on the external drive.
     
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    So it is possible to tell Disk Utility to use restore an image stored on a USB HD onto the current internal HD on which OS X is running?

    I ask because I believed that Disk Utility only allowed editing of non-active disks.
     
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    Well then you can copy the image from the external HD to the internal HD and restore it from there if there's a problem using an usb HD.
     
    adinu, Nov 8, 2007
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