OS X :: How To Clone My Harddisk From Old Mac To New Mac
Sep 5, 2010Just bought a new MacBook pro was using a few years old MacBook? How do I clone the hd to the new Mac? Time machine won't help because I have bootcamp on it.
View 6 RepliesJust bought a new MacBook pro was using a few years old MacBook? How do I clone the hd to the new Mac? Time machine won't help because I have bootcamp on it.
View 6 RepliesI have a Macbook running on snow leopard and I wanna upgrade my internal hard drive as it is currently too small. I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner and cloned my entire hard drive to an EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. Now, I have that new internal hard drive from wester digital. What do I do with it? replace the current internal hard drive with the new harddrive and then how do I get the data from the external hard drive with my cloned data to the fresh western digital? Do I boot first from external hard drive etc? I am not sure what to do now?when I was given the option which hard drive to clone (or which part of the hard drive to clone) there was also the option to clone "Install Disk". I don't need to clone that, right?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI have just bought a Samsung 500GB SATA 5400rpm 8MB Cache Laptop Hard Drive and put it into my old MAC mini, the only problem is that the Disk Utility cannot see the drive at all. I have also tried df -hl but that cannot see it either.
If I connect the drive to a Windows PC it says that I have to initialise the drive using an MBR or GUID Partitioning.
I'm assuming that I have to use GUID partitioning for the MAC? But how do I do this inside Leopard? Do I have to take the drive out and initialise it using Windows?
I've continuously seen "IOATAController device blocking bus" these days. After googleing, I found this message might be an indicator of disk failure. However, using �Disk utility� didn�t give me any error at all. So, how can I make sure there isn�t any damage in the harddisk?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy Macbook seems to have a life of its own it wakes up by itself when the harddisk is sleeping.When I leave the computer open but the hard screensaver is on or the harddisk is at sleep it often wakes up by itself.Also when I go to sleep at night and I close down the screen and the lid there are sounds as if the computer wants to wake up and this often goes on for up to 15 times in a row.I then have to shut down the computer and disconnect all together.This is really enoying as I am afraid the harddisk will get harmed during the night.I have upgraded to snowleopard and after that this problem started.I did leave my computer to a apple service shortly after I changed my harddisk there after my old harddisk crashed in november last year.But they could not find any problem with my computer.I really would like to now what´s going on.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have a dead MBP 15, can I take out that harddisk an insert it into another MBP perhaps 13" just to get all my data out and then replace the old harddisk again?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I bought a MBP13 with a 250 GB. I noticed that the HD is a Seagate 250 GB 5400 rpm.
So i thought I would upgrade it to a Seagate 500 Gb 5400 rpm(Momentus).
Now the noise is noticeable. Not much, but you can hear it.
Should a 500GB harddisk be more noisy than a 250 Gb? I thought it would be the same. The only difference I saw between the two harddisk is that the old HD had a Apple logo on it.
Otherwise its the same brand and model, just with a higher capacity.
If I had upgraded at apple would I have been rid of the noise or is this just something that follows along with the higher capacity?
Is it possible to make CD image and copy it to the harddisk and mount it as though it was a CD - so that programs requirering to read from CD would know?
I have some software (legally purchased!) that I use frequently and I would like not be required to carry the CD with me all the time - plus my PB is noisy when accessing the CD compared to the harddrive.
I baught a refurbished mbp a year ago... The keyboard lights were not working, so I took it to a mac store. I live in kuwait so there arnt any official mac stores just authorised reslellers (who btw are rippin peopl off with profits over 100%) anyway so they told me that the hard disk was not working!
I told them that I just baught the mbp and it has to be working! They fixed it or something and returned it to me with no charges.A year later my mbp decided to use the malfunction card it stoped working. All I'd get when I turn it on is a white blank screen and a mouse cursor.I took it to a shop to fix it. He told me the hard disk isn't wokring and cannot be fixed. He replaced it.A month later instead of a blank screen I get a blinking folder. I take it back to the shop and he says the new hard disk malfunctioned again, so he replaced it.week later blank screen I take it to the shop same problem hard disk needs to be replaced.Keep in mind that by shop I mean multiple mac associated and non mac shops, I took many opinions b4 accepting that my harddisks and the info on them were indeed lost.Now I am thinkin my mbp is causing the hard disks to malfunction! Is that posible?
125 GB of my MBP 320 GB harddisk is used by "other files".
Only through OmniDiskSweep have I been able to at least identify my real user files and delete some not needed files to keep the MBP operational. I only have about 160 GB of real, accessible user files (i.e. fotos, music, documents).
The rest which eats up my hard disk apparently files automatically created by Apple software and not accessible via the finder. I hardly find this user friendly at all!
how to reduce these "other" files safely!
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Each time I restart my MAC, the hardisk icon on the desktop dropped from the top right hand corner to the bottom middle, why is that so??
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noting the diff which is speed, type of ram, graphics card and harddisk. My more impt factor is the graphics card. Is the new Nvidia 9400m better than the old ATI card?Not sure which to get... how to balance with the new machine with the price....My assesment is that... the diff is about $100 or even equal if i upgrade the old model to 4gb ram. So, is the ~$100 diff justifiable to get the old one cos its $100 cheaper but get a better graphics card? Or pay $100 more to get the new model with a bit slower CPU, lousier graphics card but double the hard disk and DDR3 ram compared to DDR2.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI cannot copy files from my time machine into a new harddisk.I want to copy documents and pictures from an old backup to my newly installed SSD partition mith osx 10.7.4
Finder stop the copying due to permissions issus.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex. I have perform a check on the external harddisk using Disk Utility. No matter ho many times I tried to backup my file, the Time Machine will refuse to move after it has transferred est 70 MB data.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Mac Pro with 3 HDs inside. Does anyone know if it is possible to clone each HD to a Ubuntu box over my local network?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a couple of laptops and i was wandering how i could clone my ibook clamshell hd onto them? I have a firewire 400 to firewire 400 cable but im not sure how i can clone the hd onto them without removing the Hd's.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had some problems with my 17" MacBook Pro and needed a replacement immediately. The Apple Store didn't have a 17" that met my requirements so I bought a 13" that I plan to give to my wife to replace her 13" non-pro.
So. I'm ordering a 17" over the Internet. When it arrives, I'd love to avoid ALL the configuration that I just went through to get this new 13" setup like my old 17". Is there any way to completely clone the drive in my 13" MBP completely and transfer the data to the new 17" MBP when it arrives?
Sorry for this silly question, bit I read a lot of threads where the point is to clone a HD to one another. When doing so, with the applications installed, does it mean that the copy is fully functional, applications are copied and run despite protection codes, etc.. ?? It means that everyone can clone its applications on someone else HD and up and running ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHere is my dilemma I bought a g3 600mhz on ebay for 90 dollars works beautifully updated the memory to 640mb need to change the dvd drive and would like a bigger harddrive however i do not have the restore discs that came with it. I am currently running 10.4.11 tiger and can't afford the full version. How can I just clone the harddrive to the new one???
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just bought a new harddisk that is smaller than my old one. It turns out I can't clone the disk if they are different sizes.
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i formated the drive as a Guid Partition, ignored preferences and all the stuff i could find online to see to it that i did it right but no go,
can anyone tell me if this drive is incompatible or which one i should exchange it for?
i tried cloning my original OSX Leopard DVD and i get errors when from both CCC and Super Duper,
I am doing a clean install of lion from the recovery HD, is it best to migrate the data back via TM back up, or clone? I don't have any programs that i don't a have disc for, and all i want to migrate is itunes, mail, and pic files etc. I have seen where migrating when you install is better than migrating later, so i want to be sure i have a clean clone, or back up, to migrate from. I also failed to write zero's over SL when i did a clean install for Lion, so it was not so clean. So i guess my question is just, clone, or TM back for migration?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have a Core 2 Duo Mini Server (previous generation) running 10.7.4 (client, not server, single disk, no RAID). That system is configured exactly as I want. Can I clone that disk and boot a new i7 MacBook Pro (13" Oct 2011 model). I guess what I'm wondering is whether the system running on the older Core 2 Duo has the bits to support newer hardware in the newer machine... or maybe those item were left out during the install on the old machine because the installer detected that the hardware wasn't present.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a 2010 MBP (OX10.7), and just ordered one of the newly released MB Retina. I will get it sometime in July. All my regular files and settings are both on an external and on sugarsync. If I just needed to restore those to the new MB- it would be no big deal.
Besides the everyday use of a MBP, I am a analytics professional. So, on my MBP, I have lots of programs (usual and unusual), a Mysql database, a Windows 7 partitiion (via parallels) with Office for Win, a few other analytics programs like R, datamining and some of their extensions and GUI interfaces, apple scripts, etc.
It is these that take hours to reinstall and get back to normal.
When I get the new MB Retina can I restore/transfer those as well? Are there any downsides to doing this? Do I use migration assitant? Something better?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How does the clone work?
Trying to make an object disappear?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
I have a couple of DVDs that are pretty scratched but still play relatively fine, is there any software out there that I can use to create a copy of them? I only need to do it with just these two so free software would be preferred.
View 10 Replies View Related i don't have a backup of my macbook - 10.5.8am also in process of reassembling my old iMac G5 ALS - 10.5.8 also.Appreciate that from a boot disk perspective then the intel is a guid format and ppc is on apm.Is there anyway to have a single external disc to backup both.
ideally i'd just plug it into the firewire port and use carbon copy cloner on a regular basis.
so I bought an ibook G3 500 MHZ from ebay that was listed for parts and fixed it, but it had no hard drive. Right now, it has a 6 GB from my lombard. My question is this- If I buy a 40 GB HD, can i clone the HD from my G4 ibook through firewire? I have the tiger family pack, so I have an extra license for it.
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