Replacing MBP Hard Drive without having to reinstall everything

**Mad Mac** · 05-27-2011, 05:22 PM

Last time i checked, it cost around P8000 to recover data by a professional. If interested look for a guy at TipidPC.

**iCaduceus** · 05-27-2011, 05:37 PM

[QUOTE=Salaryman Ryan;950312]The bigger the capacity the hard disk the faster it becomes. Why? Larger capacities store more data on the same surface area which means the data is denser and more packed together.

Just google some HD reviews and you will see that higher capacity HD perform faster then lower capacity ones.

Thank so much...

**drdom** · 05-29-2011, 11:43 PM

Did the upgrade the other day and everything went smoothly

1) bought a new 500gb hd
2) installed it in an enclosure
3) plugged it into my Mac's USB
4) Used carbon copy cloner (source=my existing HD, target=new HD plugged into USB. Took about 2 hours)
5) turned off the my Mac and swapped in the new HD
6) Turned on my Mac and used it as if nothing happened

Everything was as it was.

Thanks all!

**leadbelly** · 06-02-2011, 10:33 AM

I have a 2 1/2 MB Santa Rosa and despite its beat up appearance, I don't really want to upgrade or change laptops just yet since it still does what its supposed to do, so am looking to just upgrade HDs.

Anyway, I read here that higher capacity disks are faster? I was planning to change my HD with an SSD drive (I'm not really a space hog, I always use external HDs) so it would be faster and quieter, and not as taxing for the battery. Or would I be better off with a higher capacity HD instead?

**LeoCastillo** · 06-02-2011, 01:48 PM

For performance, get SSD. For space and lower cost, get a higher capacity HDD.

**badoodles** · 06-02-2011, 07:31 PM

Just used SuperDuper! to clone my 2008 white Macbook 160 gig drive onto a 500 gig. Took 2 1/2 hours, swapped hard drives, and presto! I now have a 500 gig HDD.

The only problem was when replacing the battery I twisted the battery lock too hard and broke it off.

**Salaryman Ryan** · 06-05-2011, 03:18 PM

You don't even need to use carbon copy or super duper, when I upgrade my hard disk to a bigger one, I just use Restore in Disk utility to clone my old disk to the new one. Simple!

**Eriction** · 07-13-2011, 12:38 AM

Question to the experts:

I recently took out the hard disk from my MBP as I am giving the unit to my bro and he installed a new HD on it.

My question is would I be able to use the hard disk (I placed it in an enclosure) and use another mac and boot up from it? I plan to eventually get the new Macbook Air but in the interim, I was hoping that I can still boot up from that HD using another Mac (my wife's) and still be able to access my files/programs, etc.

Let me know.

Thanks!

Eriction

**mark_17** · 07-13-2011, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by Eriction

Question to the experts:

I recently took out the hard disk from my MBP as I am giving the unit to my bro and he installed a new HD on it.

My question is would I be able to use the hard disk (I placed it in an enclosure) and use another mac and boot up from it? I plan to eventually get the new Macbook Air but in the interim, I was hoping that I can still boot up from that HD using another Mac (my wife's) and still be able to access my files/programs, etc.

Let me know.

Thanks!

Eriction

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