Upgrading Hard drive but cant find DVD's
I need to upgrade my hard drive to something larger, but I can not find my original dvd's that came with my imac. Is there something I can do? I did just upgrade to snow leopard and have that dvd but I was not sure if I can do a clean install with a new hard drive.
Thanks
Message was edited by: smokeyjw
You can do a new install on a blank hard drive with the Snow Leopard disk. Or you can temporarily mount the new hard drive in an external case or use an adapter such as the NewerTech adapter, clone your current drive to the new unit using Carbon Copy Cloner, Super Duper or a similar utility, then mount the new drive in your iMac. Note that Mac cloning utilities may not work on a Windows partition; you'll probably have to clone that separately.
Regards.
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