Mark Gowin
Member
I am about to swap out the hard drive in my Macbook Pro for a larger faster drive and want a sanity check on the approach I am planning to take. Here goes.
1. I got one of the small Hitachi external 200 gb 7200 rpm drives.
2. Remove Hitachi drive from external enclosure
3. Remove OEM drive from MBP
4. Install Hitachi drive into MBP
5. Install OEM drive into external enclosure
6. Load OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on MBP from install disk
6. Install 10.5.2 update
7. Connect external drive and copy the applications/libraries from OEM drive to new MBP drive.
Step 7 is my biggest concern. I think it will work on the Mac OS but not sure. This approach will save a ton of time versus reloading the software from the discs or re-downloading and installing plus digging up license keys.
What do you think? Will this work? Will there be a potential performance hit going at it this way?
1. I got one of the small Hitachi external 200 gb 7200 rpm drives.
2. Remove Hitachi drive from external enclosure
3. Remove OEM drive from MBP
4. Install Hitachi drive into MBP
5. Install OEM drive into external enclosure
6. Load OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on MBP from install disk
6. Install 10.5.2 update
7. Connect external drive and copy the applications/libraries from OEM drive to new MBP drive.
Step 7 is my biggest concern. I think it will work on the Mac OS but not sure. This approach will save a ton of time versus reloading the software from the discs or re-downloading and installing plus digging up license keys.
What do you think? Will this work? Will there be a potential performance hit going at it this way?