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Upgrade MacBook HDD and SuperDuper
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joec
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Sep 5, 2008, 02:54 PM
 
I am upgrading the 80GB internal HDD to a larger HDD. Does the following procedure work? I have Tiger 10.4 OS X.

1/ Make a bootable copy of my internal HDD to an external USB HDD using SuperDuper
2/ Reboot the MacBook from the external USB HDD to make sure it can boot
3/ Swap the internal HDD with the external HDD
4/ Boot from the new internal HDD (This is the step I am not so sure. I assume the MacBook will just boot from the new internal HDD).

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Sep 5, 2008, 05:37 PM
 
You got it. That should work fine. Make sure you set the clone to be bootable when using Superduper.

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Sep 5, 2008, 06:58 PM
 
..... then put old internal into an external case and use for backup!
     
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Sep 5, 2008, 07:16 PM
 
*whoops* sorry about that. Thought that I was in the lounge for some odd reason. Silly me.
     
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Sep 11, 2008, 03:13 PM
 
Just want to give an update. The upgrade works as plan and pretty straight forward. Thanks for everyone's help and comments.
     
   
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