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xsphat · Feb 7, 2007, 08:55 PM

I bought a MacBook and it has a tiny 60 GB drive that I am going to swap for a 200 GB. My question is this; can I back up my entire user and restore it on the new drive and if so, how? I have an external drive big enough for the entire thing twice, so storage is not an issue.

climber · Feb 7, 2007, 09:20 PM

Move the data to the external drive. A program like Carbon Copy Cloner will do this. Then you can boot off the external hard drive. Then repeat process to then new internal HD.

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

kcmac · Feb 7, 2007, 10:03 PM

SuperDuper. Go to Macupdate and get it. Bootable. Easy. Great developer. The simple version is free.

Frugle · Feb 7, 2007, 10:06 PM

you still have to be using Firewire and not USB to boot off an external harddrive correct?

pcguy1 · Feb 7, 2007, 10:17 PM

I think u can now boot off on either firewire or usb2

xsphat · Feb 7, 2007, 10:31 PM

I just read the site and you can use USB. You select the USB drive as bootable with the app, then back up your stuff and restart. Then you open the program, restore the files and select the new drive as the boot volume. Restart and it is done, or so I gather from the instructions.

Great app, thanks!