You will have to reinstall or somehow transfer the data and operating systems. I don't know what programs to suggest to do the transferring. On a Mac, I use Super Duper to do the backups, but I don't know if it can handle transferring the Windows stuff. On a PC, I use Norton Ghost, but I don't know if that would work on the Mac partitions or whether it would work on the Intel Macs because it boots into DOS to do the work.
Just buy a 2.5" USB drive enclosure ($25 from compusa). [/B]
Most of those are standard notebook IDE, you'll need a notebook SATA enclosure for this to work. They aren't common yet, I don't know if any retail store has them yet, nevermind that price. There aren't any notebook SATA enclosures on the CompUSA site.
Oh yeah I forgot they are SATA. I copy laptop drives all the time and most of them IDE, it just slipped my mind.
When I did it on my MBP I connected it to my powermac and booted into target disk mode, copied it to a USB drive, switch the MBP harddrive, formated the drive with disk utility (from the install disk), booted back into TDM, and then recopied.
Most of those are standard notebook IDE, you'll need a notebook SATA enclosure for this to work. They aren't common yet, I don't know if any retail store has them yet, nevermind that price. There aren't any notebook SATA enclosures on the CompUSA site.
any sata enclosure will work, you don't need a specific notebook version. the sata connector works for notebook and desktop hard drives.
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Originally posted by sammick
Dumb question:
If you replace the hard drive on a Macbook
Don't you have to reinstall the OS?
If you buy a Macbook with Windows preinstalled--(like from MacMall) you lose Windows don't you?
they sell you a licensed copy and give you the license code. Of course your apple comes with the os x install disks too.
Just buy a 2.5" USB drive enclosure ($25 from compusa).
Originally posted by jpennington
Just buy a 2.5" USB drive enclosure ($25 from compusa). [/B]
Most of those are standard notebook IDE, you'll need a notebook SATA enclosure for this to work. They aren't common yet, I don't know if any retail store has them yet, nevermind that price. There aren't any notebook SATA enclosures on the CompUSA site.
When I did it on my MBP I connected it to my powermac and booted into target disk mode, copied it to a USB drive, switch the MBP harddrive, formated the drive with disk utility (from the install disk), booted back into TDM, and then recopied.
Originally posted by JeffDM
Most of those are standard notebook IDE, you'll need a notebook SATA enclosure for this to work. They aren't common yet, I don't know if any retail store has them yet, nevermind that price. There aren't any notebook SATA enclosures on the CompUSA site.
any sata enclosure will work, you don't need a specific notebook version. the sata connector works for notebook and desktop hard drives.
I did a data transfer from my PowerBook and I only have 23GB left even after clearing out unneeded files.