Change my HDD into SSD

i bought my 15inch macbook pro 2011 summer, and now i want to change my hdd into ssd, can apple help me do this?

I purchased a 120gb OCZ Vertex plus. I noticed a huge difference in boot up time. with a regular hard drive it took anywhere from 25-30 seconds, with the SSD it knocked it down to about 15 seconds..huge difference. Everything runs alot faster.
I bought this external hard drive enclosure . Then you put the new ssd in the enclosure, erase and format the drive to mac osx extended (journaled) and use a free cloning program such as CarbonCopyCloner and it makes an exact copy of your old hard drive. When it is done, you just swap the drives and you are good to go.

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I want to change my HDD to SSD for macbook pro 15 2010 need some help

i want to change my HDD to SSD what will work with my macbook pro 2.66GHz (15-inch Unibody w/Intel Core i7) - April 2010 and do it will make my macbook pro low timp and do my macbook pro will be more faster ?

Personally I am not a fan of SSDs because they are not cost effective for my personal requirements. However I do recognize that the days of the disk are numbered, but I suspect that day is still a few years off.
Crucial is a fine company and is one of the two I personally recommend for RAM (OWC being the other) so I suspect that would be a good choice to make. They are a consumer responsive company. Indeed the Amazon price is attractive but before you commit yourself, see if you can find test information and reviews on this product.
I personally cannot give you first hand information on SSDs because I have none of my own. But perhaps some one will read this post and chime in.
Ciao.

Change from HDD to SSD

Hello, I have an iMac mid 2011 with a 2TB HDD, Although I know it is possible to change out the hard drive, If I wanted to change to an SSD is there any paticular brand or method I have to use to avoid the temperture sensor problem I have heard about with these models? (The fans start spinning at full speed with hard drive change out)
Thanks.

Instead of changng and losing all of that storage why not just add in the ssd?
http://ifixit.org/1669/imac-21-5-and-27-dual-hard-drive-kits/

Going from hdd to ssd

I would like to change a hdd to ssd on macbook pro (mid 2010). If I use time machine backup from old system on new ssd will it be copied with the old disk faults ? I would like to install fresh OS X on ssd, but at the same time I wish to keep aperture librery with all my pictures and iweb where I created my website.
This are my priorities and the rest of data I can move to external hard drive and bring them one by one to new system on new ssd.
Could you please, tell me how to do it and what is best solution ?

A clone of a HDD will have loads of empty blocks, all those blocks would be written to the SSD...
Incorrect. Most backup programs don't do a block-for-block copy (though some have such an option on very restricted conditions). They copy the files (like cp -rp). So blank space on the source won't be the same blank space on the destination.
But serious question for a moment, do these Carbon Copy Clone drive 3rd party softwares have some kind of special function? Some people have crazy devotion to them and its peaked my interest as to why.
If you want to go through the "exercise" of creating lauchagents or cron tasks for constructing and easily changing scheduling backups, more power to you. I for one just want to schedule the stuff, possibly change the schedule if need be, and move on to more important things like doing the work that actually needs to be backed up! If you don't believe in scheduling periodic backups, well, that's another story.
Though, to be honest, I still question its usefulness when Disk utility does the same thing; select a hard disk ( "TOSHIBA MK2561GSYN Media" on my MacBook Pro), click "new image" and then click go. Then use restore in Disk Ulitity to restore the disk from the image - carbon copy goodness!
So do most other people that do backups, i.e., creating a .dmg (what you get from DU's New Image) is not the way to do backups. DU's Restore, maybe, but I've never used DU for backups.

Can i clone my macbook air HDD into an SSD and then install that on a macbook pro??

i Have a macbook air 2013 with mavericks and my brother has a 2012 macbook pro with yosemite, i want to keep mavericks, can i clone my air's HDD into an SSD and install that SSD into the pro??

Yes, although your MBA does not have an HDD. It has an SSD. Just put the new SSD into a dock or enclosure, clone your drive to it, then install the new SSD into the MBP.
Clone Yosemite, Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu then press the Continue
         button.
     2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
     3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
     4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it
         to the Destination entry field.
     5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
         the Source entry field.
     6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external SSD. Source means the internal startup drive.

Change HDD with SSD in Notebook HP ENVY 15-k000nl - Warranty expiration - Maximun RAM Upgrade

Good morning,
I have bought the above notebook one week ago, in the HP main site there wasn't photo about the rear and when I saw there is no easy way for chanhe HDD to SSD, I have to unscrew about 15 screws located here and there
Just I would like know if I change the SSD the warranty will expire?.
At the same time please can I upgrade the RAM to 16 GB DDR3L? which is the Maximun RAM Upgradable?
Best regards
Christian

Hi, Christian:
Yes, if you replace the hard drive or memory, the warranty will be voided as neither component is a DIY (do it yourself) project.
Please see the service manual at the link below, chapter 6 for the authorized service center removal and replacement procedures for those components.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04409752.pdf

Change HDD to SSD in iMac of 2008

Hi.
I have an iMac of 2008 and I would like to change the HDD because it was broken.
I was thinking to change it for an Solid State Drive de 240 GB in orther to obtain more performance.
Specifically I was thinking in OXZ Agility 3 of 240GB unit of 2.5''. Is it possible to do this or this drive will not work?
If it was posible, I will need and 2.5'' to 3.5'' adaptor, right?
To complete the information, these are the links to the products I'm thinking to buy:
OCZ Agility 3 240GB
OCZ SSD 3.5" Adaptor Bracket 2
Thanks.

There are a number of ifixit videos out there for a primer on what you will encounter. The front screen is held on with little magnets, it lifts off easily with a couple of suction cups. The LCD panel is held in with lots of screws. I found it a bit easier to take out the RAM before removing the chassis. The only problem I encountered was that the leads to the LCD panel were VERY short and unplugged themselves before I could mark them (they weren't color coded or labeled in any way). Take your time some of the videos suggest that you can do this in 15-20 minutes. Well, maybe if you get to practice it a few times but I would expect to spend 1.5 to 2 hours. While you are in there get all the dust out. Check your fan impellors for dust buildup, it coats the blades. You need to be in a clean environment and have the proper tools, you'll need some torx drivers, you can get them online.

Changing HDD to SSD, what are the options?

hi, guys, new to the forum, I just bought a thinkpad x130e during an on sale event at one of the local retailer, pretty excited, since i like the rugged design.
I am looking at an upgrade from 320G HDD to a 128G SSD... but i don't have any windows 7 installation disc handy, so what are the options for me to install the operating system (windows 7).
I don't know if there is a way to transfer the whole system from HDD to SSD? will there be any trick to perform? or simply i just have to purchase new copy of windows?
cos i noticed i do have a windows7 pro product key at the bottom of my thinkpad, i kinda don't want to waste the money.
please help..
Solved!
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You don't need to purchase another copy of Win7. You will need
1. SSD. This must be 7mm thick, not the more common 9.5mm thick.
2. USB enclosure for your HDD,
3. Software to "clone" the contents of your HDD to your SSD. Acronis True Image is a well-regarded package that does this. There are also some free utilities that can do this, however, I'm not familiar with them.
Procedure:
1. Move the HDD to the external enclosure.
2. Put the SSD in the X130e.
3. Reboot from the HDD. (You'll need to interrupt boot with Blue ThinkVantage button to specify.)
4. Install Acronis (or equivalent.)
5. Perform disk clone operation. You will need to tell the software how you want to resize partitions since you're going to a smaller disk.
6. Reboot from SSD.
Cheers... Dorian Hausman
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Upgrade HDD to SSD (Do i need to re-install?)

I just bought an SSD (Samsung 470 series is the one thats best with MBP right?) and i want to replace it with the stock HDD that came with my 2011 MBP 13".
What if i upgrade RAM from 4GB to 8GB and transfer from HDD to SSD by carbon copy cloner. Do i need to re-install Lion then?
Is TRIM automatically enabled if i transfer from HDD to SSD?

Upgrading the RAM is fine by itself. Just know you only have two slots, and thus need matching pairs of 4GB modules to increase the RAM from 4GB to 8GB. If you have $900, OtherWorld Computing has 16GB of RAM (two 8GB modules) for sale. (no compensation)
Use the online Crucial checker and MacTracker to make sure your getting the correct specs of the RAM (and the amount of modules) before purchasing.
What you need to do is use the free to use (donations accepted) Carbon Copy Cloner on the HDD while it's still in the machine, clone to a external powered drive and hold option to boot from it, test it out that it works.
Then make the HDD to SSD switch and option boot from the clone again, format the SSD HFS+ Journaled and use CCC to clone it onto the SSD.
OtherWorld Computing and iFixit has videos, pictures, instructions and tools needed.
When you clone, it clones the OS X partition only, not both your OS X partition and the Lion Recovery Partition, which in your case is unnecessary to have if you have a "hold option" bootable clone. (should keep two at times)
If you need to download Lion installer again, simply use MacAppStore and hold option and click on Purchases, either in Lion or Snow Leopard and then make a couple of " hold c" bootable DVD's from these instructions.
http://www.eggfreckles.net/notes/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
These DVD's made from these instructions contain the full OS X Lion, not a Recovery Lion disk or the Lion Recovery Partition which Apple provides a download for and requires a lengthily Internet connection to download Lion before it's installed.
Far as setting the TRIM, I don't know about that. Hopefully someone else will answer.
If not ask Dave (Bmer) over here:
http://macosg.com/
He replaced his hard drive with a OCZ Vertex, the fastest SSD's on the planet and also his Superdrive with a 7,200 RPM 750GB drive for storage (note: you can't boot from a Lion/Snow/Windows DVD from a external optical drive) so he would know best what to do.
Also OCZ just came out with a 480 gb or so very fast SSD, the Vertex 3 series, just as fast as the smaller SSD's but with more storage capacity, so that would be worth checking into. (smaller SSD's are faster, larger older ones are just a bit faster than a regular hard drive)
Also check out your Mac model's SATA number using the fre MacTracker and System Profiler, this way you can by the right SSD for the price and know your bus speed limitation accessing the SSD.
Good luck.

Can I change hard disk with SSD drive in Toshiba NB100?

Can I change hard disk with SSD drive in Toshiba NB100 ?
The Hard disc in this model is same size as SSD 2.5" drive?

Hi
As mentioned above: the SATA controller is supported so you will need to use a SATA SSD drive usually it should not be a big problem to upgrade the notebook with an SSD drive in some cases it could be possible that the SSD firmware needs to be updated but this depends on the SSD drive manufacturer
However, the SSD drive is much faster than a common HDD. Therefore you should notice a faster performance

Will the new 2012 iMac support 2 hard drives (HDD and SSD) like the 2011 iMac?

Will the new 2012 iMac support 2 hard drives (HDD and SSD) like the 2011 iMac?

Well, I'm not sure how anything can fit into a 5 mm depth, so I can see why they've removed the CD drive - there probably wouldn't be enough room for the laser, LOL. Can't imagine speakers, hard drive (of any flavor), logic board and so on and so forth. Fortunately, my iMac has Applecare through early 2015 so I'm set for a while; I may check out a Mini at that point - saw that it is configurable with a fusion drive, which would make it interesting for me.

HP ENVY 17T - J100 I NED TO REPLACE THE MAIN HDD TO SSD

I was just wanting to confirm that with the HP ENVY 17T J100 model can upgrade it's HDD to SSD? This model has the 1TB HDD. If I simply clone the HDD to an SSD of the same size. will it work? Or is there more complex setup to get the raid working between SSD/SSD rather than SSD/HDD?
also i try with 120 ssd and it didnt work. if i change the main 1 TB HDD to 1 tb SSd can i use the recovery disks to return all the windows as factory with the SSD or not and why if not
Thanks for your time!

Hi @sherifmadkour
I understand you are looking at replacing your HDDs in your notebook with SSDs. I can help you with your question.
Please see the following for your notebook family which shows the supported components.
HP ENVY 17 Notebook PC HP ENVY TouchSmart m7 Notebook PC HP ENVY TouchSmart 17 Notebook PC Maintenan...
You can find the drive list in the product description section, and also under the Hard Drive list, in Component replacement procedures.
Anything outside of that list would not have been tested with the other hardware, and so is unexplored territory. It is one of those things where if a device has different current requirements, it can put strain on the other hardware or an issue of driver compatibility.
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Going from HDD to SSD+HDD

I have a 2010 First Gen i7 desktop iMac computer and am looking rather fondly at SSD drives to run alongside my 1TB Internal HDD. Boot and Apps on SSD, everything else on Internal, the usual set-up.
I know I can change the location of my home folder via System Prefs > Users & Groups > Ctrl+Click User > Advanced Options
What would be the best way to deal with the migration from HDD to SSD+HDD?
Do I do a fresh install onto the SSD and then point to the home folder left over on the HDD and delete the old system files around it?
Does restoring from Time Machine via the Lion install process give me the option of choosing a different disk to send my personal files to? (this would be proffered).
Do I wipe everything clean, restore the OS from time machine, then use Time Machine from the temperary user account to restore my personal files to the HDD?
I do have two external HDDs (time machine and "junk" drive) - do I use the terminal to copy my files to the junk drive (preserving structure and timestamps using the -pR flag), then copy them back onto the HDD once everything is wiped and continue from there?
The last options seems like the most realistic, but the second would be the most proffered (if possible).
What is the best way to do this? Anyone done it before? Anything I should be careful of?
Thanks!

A clone of a HDD will have loads of empty blocks, all those blocks would be written to the SSD...
Incorrect. Most backup programs don't do a block-for-block copy (though some have such an option on very restricted conditions). They copy the files (like cp -rp). So blank space on the source won't be the same blank space on the destination.
But serious question for a moment, do these Carbon Copy Clone drive 3rd party softwares have some kind of special function? Some people have crazy devotion to them and its peaked my interest as to why.
If you want to go through the "exercise" of creating lauchagents or cron tasks for constructing and easily changing scheduling backups, more power to you. I for one just want to schedule the stuff, possibly change the schedule if need be, and move on to more important things like doing the work that actually needs to be backed up! If you don't believe in scheduling periodic backups, well, that's another story.
Though, to be honest, I still question its usefulness when Disk utility does the same thing; select a hard disk ( "TOSHIBA MK2561GSYN Media" on my MacBook Pro), click "new image" and then click go. Then use restore in Disk Ulitity to restore the disk from the image - carbon copy goodness!
So do most other people that do backups, i.e., creating a .dmg (what you get from DU's New Image) is not the way to do backups. DU's Restore, maybe, but I've never used DU for backups.

Should I upgrade RAM or HDD to SSD on my Mac mini mid 2010?

Hello,
I have a mid 2010 Mac mini with 2GB of RAM. My apps like E-Mail, Safari, Google Chrome and others are starting slow and sometimes running slow. Should I upgrade RAM to 4GB or 8GB or replace my 320GB HDD to SSD?
Thank you yor help, DZetko

You are running a Core 2 Duo. Even a duck has paddling limitations. You are running Mountain Lion on a 2GB machine and it is starved for RAM. The performance is gravitational.
Upgrade your machine via the preceding MacSales link to matching 4GB modules for 8GB. I believe you will be astonished at the improvement. Make certain that you have used Disk Utility to verify/repair your system preferences, and then verify the boot drive while in Disk Utility.
In your login directory (~) go into the Library/Caches folder, select everything in it and move to Trash. Don't bother to empty the Trash just yet. Shutdown your mini.
Now, power on your mini. At the chime, press and hold the shift key until you see a grey horizontal progress bar. At the login window, press and hold the shift key again as you press the right-arrow icon to login. Release the shift key when the Finder menu bar appears. You are now in Safe Boot Mode. Empty the Trash. Reboot normally.
This just did a series of house-cleaning steps for you. It removed and/or rebuilt system cache files, including the Fonts cache. It also rebuilt the database governing the open with ... menu. So, if you had any duplication in there, they are repaired. Safe Boot Mode also does a low-level inspection of your boot drive. You should see some additional performance improvement. I do a Safe Boot Mode about once a month as routine maintenance.
With the improvements I have suggested and preceding pointers, you should have a 2010 Mac mini working as well as it can with Mountain Lion and a SATA II hard drive.

How can I change my JApplet into a JApplication?

I am working with a JApplet and am finding that some of my code only works in applications.
So being new to this, I am clueless as to how to change my Applet into an Application. I understand the difference in definition between the two, but when it comes to looking at Applet Code and Application Code, I am not able to see a difference. (Other than an Applet stating "Applet")
So, that being said how can I change my code so that it runs as an application and not an applet? Here is my current layout code
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
// Creating the main class
public class test extends JApplet implements ActionListener
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     Font newFontOne = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.BOLD, 20);
     Font newFontTwo = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.ITALIC, 16);
     Font newFontThree = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.BOLD, 16);
     Font newFontFour = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.BOLD, 14);
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     private NumberFormat principalFormat;
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     private double finalPayment;
     private JLabel monthlyPaymentLabel = new JLabel(" Monthly Payment    \t         Interest Paid    \t \t            Loan Balance");
     private NumberFormat finalPaymentFormat;
     private JTextField displayMonthlyPayment = new JTextField(10);
     private JTextField displayInterestPaid = new JTextField(10);
     private JTextField displayBalance = new JTextField(10);
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     // Creation of the textArea that will display the output
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          // Creation of the panel design and fonts
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          JPanel middle = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          JPanel lower = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          JPanel areaOne = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          JPanel areaTwo = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          JPanel areaThree = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          JPanel areaFour = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          JPanel areaFive = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          JPanel areaSix = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
          Container con = getContentPane();
          getContentPane().add(upper, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          getContentPane().add(middle, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          getContentPane().add(lower, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
          upper.add(areaOne, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          middle.add(areaTwo, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          middle.add(areaThree, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          middle.add(areaFour, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
          lower.add(areaFive, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          lower.add(areaSix, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
          heading.setFont(newFontOne);
          instructions.setFont(newFontTwo);
          instructions2.setFont(newFontTwo);
          principalLabel.setFont(newFontThree);
          monthlyPaymentLabel.setFont(newFontFour);
          displayInterestPaid.setFont(newFontFour);
          displayBalance.setFont(newFontFour);
          areaOne.add(heading, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          areaOne.add(instructions, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          areaOne.add(instructions2, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
          areaTwo.add(principalLabel, BorderLayout.WEST);
          areaTwo.add(enterPrincipal, BorderLayout.EAST);
          areaThree.add(selections, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          areaFour.add(calculate, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          areaFour.add(exitButton, BorderLayout.EAST);
          areaFour.add(clearButton, BorderLayout.WEST);
          areaFive.add(monthlyPaymentLabel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          areaSix.add(txtArea, BorderLayout.CENTER);
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baftos wrote:
Here is one of the sites that explains the procedure:
[http://leepoint.net/notes-java/deployment/applications_and_applets/70applets.html].
But maybe you should try to fix the code that does not work as applet?
Which one is it?
>Here is one of the sites that explains the procedure:
[http://leepoint.net/notes-java/deployment/applications_and_applets/70applets.html].
But maybe you should try to fix the code that does not work as applet?
Which one is it?
The code that doesn't work in my applet is the exit button code
else if (source == exitButton)
                    System.exit(1);
               }I also can't get my program to properly validate input. When invalid input is entered and the user presses calculate, an error window should pop up. Unfortunately it isn't. I compile and run my applications/applets through TextPad. So when I try to test the error window by entering in invalid info, the applet itself shows nothing but the command prompt window pops up and lists errors from Java. Anyhow, here is the method I was told to use to fix it.
private static boolean validate(JTextField in)
          String inText = in.getText();
          char[] charInput = inText.toCharArray();
          for(int i = 0; i < charInput.length; i++)
               int asciiVal = (int)charInput;
          if((asciiVal >= 48 && asciiVal <= 57) || asciiVal == 46)
          else
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid Character, Please Use Numeric Values Only");
               return false;
               return true;
     }My Instructor told me to try the following, but I still can't get it to work.String content = textField.getText();
if (content.length() != 0) {
try {          Integer.parseInt(content);
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {}

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