I need to upgrade my HD, how do I clone my current HD?
I need to upgrade from a 500GB to a TB hard drive. How do I clone my current HD to the new TB drive and use it as the main drive? I plan to remove the 500GB completly and nee the TB to be the boot drive
I'm sure the instruction are out there but I couldn't find them. Thanks in advance
Clone
Disk utility has RESTORE which will also clone your system but not the Lion Recovery partition. Oddly Apple did not 'endorse' making bootable clone of the system which works too but most choose Carbon Copy Cloner - it works more consistently; it allows for smart update of the backup volume. Both can backup to a sparse disk image if desired.
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/updates/ccc-3.5.html
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/11527071#11527071
This is what is in the discussion. It really doesn't get any easier than this.
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