Recently I came to the realization that I was out of space on the 150GB Hard Drive my Macbook came with. So I was in a bit of a pickle. Do I migrate everything to an external? Do I delete stuff? What are my options? I have old external hard drive set up as my Time Machine so I decided to head over to trusty Newegg.com and buy a new internal hard drive.
I was in luck, the 640GB Western Digital Scorpio was on sale so I made the purchase while preparing for the Super Bowl last Sunday. Tuesday afternoon rolled around and I already had my hard drive so I began this amazingly easy process. I will break it down in steps below:
Step 1: Hardware
Follow Apple’s instructions on how to physically remove the old and input the new here http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/MacBook_13inch_HardDrive_DIY.pdf
NOTE: You need a really small Philips Head screwdriver to take out the Ram door.
Step 2: Software
If you are like me and have Time Machine set up, plug it in and insert the disk of the operating system you are using (I cannot stress this enough, using a Leopard disk to restore a Snow Leopard Time Machine will NOT work). Go to Utilities and select ‘Restore from Time Machine.’
Step 3: Wait
It normally takes between two and three hours for the backup to complete, so go play Modern Warfare 2 or something like I did.
Step 4: Restart
And you’re done. Time Machine backs up your system so well that it even saved my browser history and Firefox opened to the exact page I was on. Amazing.
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