Can I replace my existng 232 GB Hard Drive with a larger one?

Can I replace my existing 200 GB Hard Drive with a new larger one?

It would help to knowwhich one of the 21 different models of MacBook you have. Some can use a 12.5mm high drive others are limited to no more than 9.5mm high. To see which model you have go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info. When System Profiler comes up check the Model Identifier.

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Can I replace the curent hard drive with a larger one in my early 08 Book

OK - we have had this machine for alittle over a year. I bought it as a refurb from Mac (my personal favorite way to buy anything Mac) and we are running out of space. I have all of our pics on an external HD but still have the music on the main HD of the MacBook.
I know that the options of putting my iTunes library on the external is always there, but I HATE HATE HATE having things not on my machine. Things never seem to work just right when they are accessed remotely. Maybe I am not doing something right with the networking, but there seems to always be a delay. With the music, we have Airport connecting 2 remote sets of speakers and the AppleTV and there seems to be a delay even empty spots in the music when I am playing it remotely.
SO - what options do I have on the internal HD of my MacBook or can you make suggestions on the remote synching of the external HD and libraries, etc.
Many thanks for your help!
David

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HT4889 Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive?

Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive? Should I use Carbon Copy or does apple have a better untility to do this?
I can't get my current system drive (OSX 10.8.3) to start on the first try. I always have to shut down and restart again to finally see the Apple logo.
Have used disc utility to repair the disc and permissions several times and that works. The next time I boot up, it works fine and I get the apple logo, but then the second time I boot up, it's back to the blank screen again and it only boots after the second try. I have tried this repair three different times now always with the same result. Works right the first try (after the repair) then from the second time on it doesn't work. I just get the white screen until I reboot a second time.
Thinking I should change drives but what's the easist and best way to move everything over to the new drive so it will boot correctly with all my data on it. This is the system drive for a Pro Tools 10HD setup. MacPro 3,1 with 16 gigs ram and OSX10.8.3 on it.
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If you have a time machine back up of your current drive you can do this
Shut down your computer, install the new drive. While the computer is off plug in the external hard drive that you have your time machine back up on. Hold Option key while the computer turnes on, let go of the option key once you get a grey screen. Shortly after you'll see a list of bootable drives, select the one that has your time machine back up on it and boot into that drive.
From there go into disk utility, format your new drive too, osx extended journaled ( I think, double check that, its been awhile since ive had to do this), hit format
Exit disk utility and then you can use time machine to copy all your exisit data to the new hhd and then your pretty much done.
There is also a program called Carbon Cloner that will do esentially the same thing however I've never uesed it.

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I am trying to replace my old hard drive with a new one. For some reason it won't do it. I want to perform a clean install with the recovery disks. It seems the only way I can do this is to clone the old one with the new. I have attempted several times and wasted a lot of time trying to use my new drive. Is HP preventing me from doing this for some reason? Is there a work around for this?

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So after you download Lion and select to run the installer it will show you which disk to install on, being the default SL drive you downloaded Lion with. But here you can click Other Disk and select the external HD. The installer will run and then boot into the external drive to complete the installation. From then on you can use Startup Disk or the Option key to select the preferred OS.

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Thanks in advance

You cannot directly split a backup. Your only option would be to open the TimeMachine preferences from System Prefs. and add things to the exclusion list for one of the backups. Then, when you go to do the other backup you would reverse the process and add everything else to the exclusion list and remove the things you had on there in the first place.
Seems fairly intensive though when you could just go and buy a 2 or 3TB external drive and do it all in one...Black Friday is coming up
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How do I replace my old internal hard drive with a new one?

I just ordered a new 1TB hard drive to replace my very small hard drive in my 17" MacBook Pro.
I've looked around at some of the discussions and apparently I need to format the new hard drive first. I am not so great with this techy stuff. Can someone briefly help me and explain exactly how I am supposed to do this? Like I take my old hard drive out first put the new one in.... format it. Take it out put the old one in... somehow copy it... agh confused...
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If you have a time machine back up of your current drive you can do this
Shut down your computer, install the new drive. While the computer is off plug in the external hard drive that you have your time machine back up on. Hold Option key while the computer turnes on, let go of the option key once you get a grey screen. Shortly after you'll see a list of bootable drives, select the one that has your time machine back up on it and boot into that drive.
From there go into disk utility, format your new drive too, osx extended journaled ( I think, double check that, its been awhile since ive had to do this), hit format
Exit disk utility and then you can use time machine to copy all your exisit data to the new hhd and then your pretty much done.
There is also a program called Carbon Cloner that will do esentially the same thing however I've never uesed it.

I want to replace the hard drive with a larger drive

can I back up my hard drive onto Time Machine then replace with a larger drive then just use time machine to restore without reinstalling all the software?? I currently have a 5400RPM 320 GB hard drive and I want to replace with a 750 GB 7200RPM drive.

Yes you can, but I'd advise you use cloning software and another powered external drive instead, leave the TM drive as extra backup.
What you do is this. Get another external drive equal or larger than the 750GB drive.
Use Disk Utility to format this drive HFS+ Journaled.
Then download a (donations accepted, but otherwise free to use) copy of Carbon Copy Cloner, then clone your OS X boot drive to the external drive.
Hold option and reboot the computer, you will get a choice of bootable drives, including the external drive.
Once your booted off the clone, check it out and Repair Permissions in Disk Utility on both drives.
Once your happy it works good. Then make the internal hard drive switch.
When that's done, hold option and boot off the clone and simply reverse clone onto the internal drive.
You can also hold c and boot off the installer disks and use TimeMachine to restore to the internal drive.
However if there is a problem with your new internal drive or your disks are scratched, or your Superdrive fails, your might have nothing to boot from, with the clone you can option boot off of that and order a replacement drive or simply use it until the replacement arrives.
(well I guess you could place the old drive back in, then switch it out again, but it's risky working inside a machine, you could lose screws or static charge something or accidentially pull a cable, so the less inside time the better, plus you'll need the larger drive anyway to TM too.)
So you get a lot more protection that you can get online and working in a few seconds with a clone.
TimeMachine drives are not bootable, I wish they were but they aren't.
So it's best to have both methods at the ready in case one fails.
(disclaimer: I haven't used TimeMachine myself my needs are more specialized, I'm quoting second hand information and may contain inaccuracies as I'm not a TM expert)
For further information I point you to Pondini's excellent guide of the capabilities of each here.
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Clones.html

Can I use my old laptop's Hard drive with a PC?

Hello,
i bought myself an apple laptop in summer 2004. I stored a year's worth of files, projects, pictures, docs, songs... The motherboard died 4 months ago.
Fast forward... I now use a PC (don t ask why) and I need to recover my files. I bought a container for 3 inch hard drives. It said it was mac and pc compatible, plug and play style with an usb cord. There is no software to install, it was supposed to work like a USB key. however, the PC didn t recognize it. I thought maybe it s because the file format is different on PC and WinXP, or maybe Tiger locked the hard drive... I don t have access to another ibook or powerbook to connect it to, so any other hints from you guys would be most helpful.
Thanks.
a 2004 12 ibook Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Yes, you're right about the format of the disk. Out of the box, Windows XP can't read a Mac formatted-hard disk. You have two options... One, find another Mac to plug your hard drive into and see if you can't burn some of your files to CDs. A CD that the Finder burns should be both Mac and PC compatible. Or, two, purchase some software that will allow your PC to read a Mac formatted disk (the disk is probably formatted as a "Mac OS Extended" disk). It's $50, but will allow your PC to read a Mac-formatted hard drive.
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Can I store files on an external hard drive with my Time Machine backups?

if you have TM backing up to an external hard drive is it possible to store other files on it like normal without disturbing TM?

As Neil says, you can do this.
Be very careful not to put the other files inside the Backups.backupdb folder that TM uses.
But it's much, much better to make a separate partition for the other files, so TM has it's own, exclusive space. See item #3 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip.*

How do I transfer data from one external hard drive to another larger one?

I hope I am posting in the logical area for this topic. I have an external hard drive connected to my eMac. My iTunes library and some backup files reside on this hard drive. I am contemplating purchasing another, larger external hard drive so that I can archive more data--more music and some photos. How do I transfer my data from the first drive to the second one, and is this a risky move? (I have a lot of music!)

Hello,
Take a look at SuperDuper (link). This 'clones' any drive across to another; it should suit your needs just fine.
Firewire drives with an Oxford chipset are recommended for PowerPC Macs (like the eMac and iBook) as you can boot the Mac from one to recover the system if the internal drive suffers any issues.
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Moving a hard drives with songs from one computer to another

I'm going to have my collection of music on one external hard drive, but I'm streaming from one computer using ATV to my home stereo system, but managing the music on the external drive (adding mostly) from another machine. (The reason is that the streaming machine is much older and slower - works for streaming but my USB ports are crappy and so I want to be able to add music directly to the hard drive from my newer, faster notebook).
Given this scenario, if I add music to the external drive from the newer notebook, when I go to connect it to the streaming machine, what do I have to do each time to update Itunes on that computer?

you could try copying and pasting the songs on to a usb.
plug the usb into the desk top and paste them onto itunes.
idk if it will work but its worth a try. i managed to get songs from my psp to my ipod this way

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You can certainly get a replacement board from Apple, but too many people have been stung that way, going through logic board after logic board.
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Give it admin as username and public as the password unless you changed the default.
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