Macbook Hard Disk Clone & Upgrade

I demonstrate how to upgrade a Macbook hard drive - all the way from cloning the drive using SuperDuper to installing the drive into the machine and booting.

Any of these enclosures will work:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ebtky

This is the one I used, now $17.99:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6pc45k

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• macbook
• upgrade
• superduper
• disk
• clone
• computer
• diy

[sanjeevp]

Is this a promotion for SuperDuper? Why would anyone spend 28 bucks for the software when you can use Mac Disk Utility to clone the drive?

[rpdillon]

@sanjeevp You can compare straight disk cloning using the Disk Utility vs. a real clone utility like CCC or Super Duper for yourself. I use the free version of Super Duper in the video, and you are free to do the same. I never actually purchased Super Duper.

The main difference between the two approaches is that this makes a bootable clone of the drive which can be swapped in for the original after the clone is complete. AFAIK, that simply is not an option with Disk Utility.

[anitattoth]

You just save me £75 by teaching me how to clone a hard drive. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Great video.

[parasiteve]

Thank you very much!

[Strik3fr33d0m]

Excellent video, on point, no bs, and most importantly you support newegg :D

[Inblut]

I have tried this right now. Finished as Im writing. Some of my Logic audio files did not pass on to the neew disk. Have no idea why ...

Some the files i´ve created into Evolve Mutations also have not passed. Could this be because the new disk is not with the same name as the previous. Could this be happening because the software is not finding the folder where the libraries are installed?

[dimentagon]

Cheers Mate....!!!!

[itsmedavidMC]

Dude where did you get that shirt!?

[whatexitvideo]

how did you partition the drive after you cloned it? what did you use? I cloned a 350 gig drive to a 1 tb drive but the new 1 TB is reading it partitioned to 350gigs. any help? Thanks in advance

[MichaelD0516]

will 54000 rpm work?



[PrAnG2000]

Man, this is exactly what I was hoping I didn't have to do.

Having to use an Enclosure.

On my PC, I just recall my cloned image [which I've saved on my D drive] while in DOS mode using old Norton Ghost prog that fits on a floppy disc.

It takes less than 4 minutes to put back cloned image which comprises of just drivers, settings and shortcuts.

[kleraudio]

Great vid! Thanks so much for this! I now have a 500GB HD!

[DarenA1967]

Thanks for this video - really helpful, and I was easily able to clone my MacBook's puny 80Gb disk onto something more substantial. Very handy to know which size Torx driver to borrow, and SuperDuper did its job with no problems at all.