Followed these directions and they worked perfectly. Even bought the enclosure from newegg and it came the next day. Entire process took me less than 20 monutes after cloning the disk with Super Dupper. Thanks for the video.

JohnR

Thanks alot – did my upgrade tonight – followed to the letter – worked perfectly. Thanks again!

Will this work with the 2010 models?

Awesome video. Just upgraded my hard drive. Your instructions were perfect.

great video. i will be performing my upgrade tomorrow.

I’ll check it out. Thanks for the vid. Great info.

Interesting. Guess I’ll try SuperDuper then.

@cavaliers60 Not sure about now, but when I made this video, CCC did not properly handle making the drive bootable if the partition table type was incorrect, but SuperDuper did. To keep the video simple, I decided to go with the free edition of SuperDuper for that reason. I have no idea (1 year later!) what the status of those programs is in this regard.

there’s a free cloning program called “Carbon Copy Cloner.” Works really well also, and you don’t have to pay. Love the video. I’m saving this for when my 500GB hard drive arrives in the mail.

Just upgraded my MacBook with the knowledge from this vid. Five stars!

in this macbook, no.

will this void the warranty?

Thank you so much! Excellent video!!

brilliant video

Thanks for the great video! Didn’t think about the drive enclosure things, now I can upgrade my drive and keep the old one for backup!

Great video! Exactly what I was looking for to help guide me through a clone of my MacBook Pro. I will have to pick up one of those Enclosure thing, apparently–only have the new hard drive right now.

Great, clear explanation.

Great video. The only thing you forgot to include was partitioning the new harddrive so that super duper can read it. But that info was easy enough to find. Great post I set up my new harddrive in under 2 hours cloning about 65 gigs of music and video. Thanks

Hello! Thank you for posting these instructions! I appreciate it.

Thanks man! i just ordered a hard drive and enclosure! I appreciate the instructions!

I’ve done this twice with disc utility and superduper! and both times the os won’t load after, I get the apple on the grey screen but then it switches to a circle with a line through it. I think it might be something to do with directories being copied wrong or something but i don’t know how to fix it.
help please

can i suggest carbon copy cloner? it’s free….

hi my macbook’s HDD is failing (S.M.A.R.T) and i backed up using time machine. will i have to reinstall my leopard CD on my macbook again….?

I also used Disk Utility to do a single default (GUID?) partition my drive right before using SuperDuper. Thanks for a great tutorial and thanks to SuperDuper folks as well.

Agree! To do this: with the new cloned drive connected via USB, hold the “option” key as the blank gray screen appears during boot up. You should be able to select which drive to boot from.

hi u alrite just wondering if this method will clone music programs aswell like Reason and Logic express etc?