NEW hardrive help.....

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ytvytv
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I just bought a new Macbook Pro as a gift for the guy that builds the websites for my businesses. It is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I also have a brand new 320gb 7200rpm HD that I got for $69.99 a few weeks ago. When I recieve the laptop tomorrow, I want to install the new harddrive in it before I give it to him.



What is the easiest process?



1. Install the new harddrive and do fresh install of Leapord?



2. Somehow clone or transfer the contents of the original harddrive to the new harddrive?



If the answer is #2, how do I go about doing this?



Thanks in advance.

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    futurepastnowfuturepastnow Posts: 1,772member
    I'd just do it the first way. Do a fresh install, and you can partition the drive (IE, 50GB for OSX and the rest for data).



    Maybe buy a 2.5" SATA-USB enclosure for the unused drive.
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    ytvytv Posts: 109member
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    I'd just do it the first way. Do a fresh install, and you can partition the drive (IE, 50GB for OSX and the rest for data).



    Maybe buy a 2.5" SATA-USB enclosure for the unused drive.



    What are the advantages of partitioning the hard drive. I've heard people mention this for years, but never asked what the advantages to this are.
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    futurepastnowfuturepastnow Posts: 1,772member
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    What are the advantages of partitioning the hard drive. I've heard people mention this for years, but never asked what the advantages to this are.



    Among other reasons, if you have to reinstall or upgrade the OS, you're not affecting the "data" partition of the drive.
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    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    Applications still go on the main partition though and all your VM space. I make a partition for Bootcamp (I recommend doing this at the start as fragmentation makes it harder to do later on). I do think it's a good idea to keep data separate though for the reason mentioned above. You can basically format the partition and reinstall a system. I've never had the need to do this though and I find it easy enough to keep most data in a folder and back it up.



    Partitions are hard to deal with when space gets low. Say you have a 50GB main partition, 15GB goes to OS X, 10GB on apps, 5 GB on VM space leaves 20GB. Hit that limit and you are in trouble because you can't expand it. You can move some stuff around of course and it's unlikely you will reach the limit but I just prefer to have one.



    You can make it as big as you like but then you feel you are letting some space go to waste so files get swapped between partitions.



    Concerning the installation, I would say just put the drive in and install a fresh copy. You will need an external enclosure otherwise. The install only takes about 45 minutes.
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