If i can upgrade my harddrive to an ssd on a 2011 macbook pro, would i have to re-download or re-purchase my movies/music all over again? or would icloud help? i heard you can re-download them back but how?
hello, i'm here to ask about my worries about wasting more money on re-downloading my favorite movies back on to my macbook 2011 model, because in a few weeks time, I'm upgrading to an durable SSD drive but my music/movies are at stake, so should i be safe with icloud as long as i have my itunes account? please respond back asap! my email [email protected] to be sure
the clone won't take you that long - i cloned a 30GB drive in 20 minutes.
here are the steps:
first get yourself a usb external enclosure...install your new drive there....
then download carbon copy cloner.
now connect your external to your macbook's usb.
launch disk utility - format/erase your new drive to mac os extended journaled.
close disk utility and launch carbon copy cloner.
clone your old drive - to your new drive - you will get a pop up saying that a recovery partition wasn't created.
create one with carbon copy - proceed with the clone. once the clone is done, turn your macbook off.
install new drive in your macbook and install old drive to your usb enclosure - use it for back up purposes.
turn your macbook back on - if boot time takes longer than 45 secs - go to system preferences - startup disk - select your new drive as the startup drive - restart your macbook.
now it should boot at 14 sec.
it's that simple
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What's in the Box
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I recently tried to upgrade my itunes on my dell laptop with 64 bit windows 7. It stopped working so I deleted all files and tried to reinstall and haven't been able to since. I've tried numerous things i've read in forums and nothing seems to work. The installation will not move past the "publishing product information" point. After being stuck there for a while this error message appears:
An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VC80.CRT,version="8.0.50727.4053",type="win32",publicKeyToken="1fc8b 3b9a1e18e3b",process or Architecture="x86"', Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x800736FD
I hope someone is able to help me with this.Did you already try what bnoir suggested in this post about error 0x800736FD:
These ones are typically caused by underlying problems on the PC that also often cause Windows Updates to fail to install. If we can fix the Windows Update trouble, we can usually get the iTunes trouble cleaned up en passant.
Go into your Windows update and try to check for new updates. If updates install, stock up on the ones you're behind on, restarting the PC if requested to do so. After the restart, try installing iTunes again. Does it go through this time for you?
If windows updates fail to install, go into your Update History and doubleclick the failures. What alphanumeric codes appear for you? Are they also 800736FD, or some other number? (If they're another number, what number are you getting?
This thread might help as well, suggestion provided by bnoir:
In general, these ones tend to be caused by underlying problems on the PC that can prevent Windows Updates from installing. So my main strategy with them is to try to fix the Windows Update issues. If we can get Windows Updates flowing again, that generally clears up the iTunes install errors +en passant.+
Head into your Windows Update, and check for any new updates. Do any fail? If so, open your Update History and doubleclick on the failure entries to bring up a small box with alphanumeric error message codes. Are you getting 8000FFFFs? (They often seem to be associated with an iTunes-install 0x800736FD.)
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[Windows Update Error 8000FFFF|http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Windows-Update-Error- 8000FFFF]
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Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Continue button.
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But it's worth a try...
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