Installing A New Hardrive

What steps do I need to take when upgrading to a new hardrive(sofware,etc)?

These are very good instructions on How to Upgrade Your MacBook's Hard Drive.

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    i have a 17 '' imac intel dual core. I do not want to have to wipe my hardrive to install Bootcamp. (Bootcamp currently won' t install because some files are not moveable.) Anyways buying a new drive seems to be the easiest option. My warranty has 3-4 months left, and i know this would void the warranty. So my ?'s
    Does anyone have a link to step by step instructions on how to do this.
    Also any horror stories from doing this.
    thanks

    Most everything of importance is backed up, if even stored on internal drive. I only wanted to keep the drive just in case as there are some random odds and ends on the drive.
    Going through that much trouble swapping data to an external going through it.... I basically wanted to avoid that unfortunately a hardrive swap is an = pain. I guess I will just have to load bootcamp on my macbook or just take the plunge and wipe the drive. We'll see

  • Finding purchased music after installing a new hardrive with old one acting

    My old hard drive lost its windows OP but it still has all the info on it. I use it as a slave for my new drive but I can't find the purchased music I bought from iTunes in the hidden folders on it.itunes still has a record of my purchased music but will not let me re-download it. How do I get this music BACK that I paid money for?
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    If you are using (or were using) Windows XP or Vista then the music files should be located in X:\Documents and Settings\USER NAME\My Documents\My Music\iTunes where "X" is the drive letter assigned to your old drive and "USER NAME" is the user account name that was used with iTunes. For your future use, this is why it is important to make backups of your data. iTunes provides an easy way to backup your media library to disc. once you have copied over the music to your new HDD, you will need to import it to iTunes and then re-authorize that computer. Open iTunes and select "File" from the menu then click "Add Folder to Library". this will open a window to select the folder to import. browse to your "My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music" folder (if that is where you copied the music back to) and click OK. After the music is added back into you iTunes you need to authorize the PC again. Select "Store" from the menu and then click "Sign In..." and enter the Apple ID used to purchase the music. Once signed in to your account, Select "Store" from the menu and then click "Authorize Computer". Now try to play some music that was purchased through iTunes to make sure everything is working. If so now would be a good time to backup your music. To do this Select "File" from the menu and then click "Back Up to Disc..." and select if you want to backup your whole libary or just purchased music. Then use either CD-Rs or DVD+-R media to backup your music. Hope it works out for you.

  • New Hardrive and now blank screen with sleep light on

    My warranty ran out on one of my mbp's, so I decided to install a new hardrive in one. I went through all the steps, and was very cautious. Now when I turn on the laptop the screen is blank and the sleep light stays on the entire time. I hear the cd-rom do some stuff but that's it. If anyone can help me figure out what happened it would be greatly appreciated.

    Well problem solved, had to apply some pressure on top of the case by the left i/o and next thing you know I hear the beautiful chime

  • Problem recreating new itunes profile on a new hardrive

    I installed a new hardrive on my cpu ( old one is there and still works, just full). I had itunes on old drive and had money left in my shopping cart with earmarked songs to buy. Now, I am on the new drive, just installed a new itunes, and it looks like it carried over some of the library on old drive, but I would like to put the listing of the earmarked songs to buy back into the new shopping cart( empty now). I thought the Apple site where I went to the store to earmark the songs would have the list and automatically put it back into the new shopping cart. It is not there. How do I get my list back into the shopping cart? thanks for help, will

    If the tracks were kept in the iTunes Store Shopping Cart, then they weren't being held on your system and transferring to a new drive shouldn't have affected anything. Make sure you're logged into the correct account on the iTunes Store. If you are, try logging out of your Store account and back in.
    Note that using the Shopping Cart as a "wish list" isn't a good idea. Items can be removed from the iTunes Store at any time, and if you have one in your Shopping Cart, it can in some cases corrupt the Cart if an item is indeed removed. You should only use the Shopping Cart for items you plan to purchase very soon (within a day or so). If you want to create a "wish list", create a normal playlist and drag the items you want to save to that playlist from the iTunes Store. That will keep them for future purchase while not risking problems with your Shopping Cart.

  • Will Apple install a new harddrive for me?  If not, who can?

    Hi, I may as well give the full story...
    I've had my 27" iMac for 6 months or so now.  I have a 1 TB Sata harddrive with 4Gbs of Memory.  Out of my 1 TB, I partitioned 100 Gb to run Windows, purely for gaming purposes. However, I need more memory, so I started looking into buying some more Memory for the RAM (seems simple enough to do on your own) and a new harddrive to increase the overall memory capacity (doesn't seem as simple to do on your own).  I don't want to partition any more of my current memory from my Mac towards Windows because I do freelance art work using Photoshop and 3D packages.  And with me working on high resolution images, I don't want anything to start slowing down.
    So, basically, all I want to know is, can I take my iMac to an Apple Store, buy a hard drive and they do this for me (obvisouly with charge) or is there some recommened shops or retailers I should check out?  I honestly don't trsut myself installing a new hardrive after seeing a couple of video tutorials on how to do it!!
    Thanks

    For iMacs, you can't go out and buy a 3rd party drive. Apple has customized the firmware on the 2011 iMac hard drives that report the drive's temperature. A non-Apple drive will cause the iMac's fans to run at full speed. You can of course get a program like HDD fan control to set the fan speed yourself. However, no way is Apple or a certified Apple repair shop going to put a non-Apple drive into your iMac for you.
    2TB drives are an option on the 2011 27" iMacs, so you could go to an Apple store and see if they will upgrade the drive. However, even with AppleCare, you would still probably have to pay for the upgrade (drive cost and labor) yourself. Just call Apple and see what they have to say.
    Memory is easily user-installed - but don't buy from Apple as their memory is WAY overpriced. OWC (http://www.macsales.com/) has great prices on memory, or you could also check out Crucial.
    BTW, don't confuse RAM(memory) with hard drive(storage) - two different things. If I were you, I would install more memory and buy a fast Firewire external drive (at the moment, Thunderbolt drives are overly pricey) to supplement your internal drive.

  • HT4178 how do i install iphoto on max 10 6.8 after putting a new hardrive ?in

    how to install iphoto in max 10 6.8 ater putting in a new hardrive so i can put back my photos?

    Welcome to Apple Support Communities
    If you purchased iLife on a disc or your Mac came with DVDs, insert the Applications DVD or Mac OS X Install Disc 2 and install iPhoto performing a custom install. Then, open  > Software Update, and install the latest version.
    If you purchased iPhoto in the Mac App Store, the most recent version isn't compatible with your Mac OS X version, so you will have to upgrade OS X if you want to install iPhoto from the App Store

  • Installing New Hardrive into Macbook Pro 13" and can't boot

    I have installed a new 500Gb 5400rpm drive into my macbook pro 13. Before I swapped the drives I used time machine to back-up onto my Lacie drive. Now the new drive is in. I turned on the computer, pressed the option button and nothing came up. I have now put my old HD into an enclosure and booted up from that drive. I copied my whole hd over to the new drive once it was formatted and tried to boot but this didn't work. I thought once I had the time machine back-up on a drive I would be able to press option when I turn on the computer and then that would workj. I don't have my OSX 10.6.8disk so am now just booting up off my old hd which is pointless. Can anyone help as I am losing my mind.

    What happens when you install the original HDD in the MBP?  If it does not boot , the connecting cable may be faulty.
    Ciao.

  • Installed new hardrive how to migrate from old drive on same computer

    I wish to migrate my user data to my new hardrive from the old drive on the same computer but the user name creates a problem

    How to relocate system and user data to another drive:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4337
    http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
    How to clone your system:
    How to Clone a Volume
    http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner

  • I plug in my printer and I get a message that says, "the disk you inserted is not readable." It didn't do this before but after I installed a segate hardrive software. I have removed the segate hardrive software but the message still appears.

    I plug in my printer and I get a message that says, "the disk you inserted is not readable." It didn't do this before but after I installed a segate hardrive software. I have removed the segate hardrive software but the message still appears. What can I do to remove this error.

    Please read this whole message before doing anything.
    This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
    Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac. 
    These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing. 
    Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects. 
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    Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply. 
    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways: 
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.) 
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens. 
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid. 
    When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign. 
    Step 1 
    Triple-click the line of text below on this page to select it:
    kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -f -a TextEdit 
    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. You can then close the TextEdit window. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that. No typing is involved in this step.
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    { launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'; crontab -l 2> /dev/null; } | open -f -a TextEdit 
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  • I have got new hardrive windows 8.1 and i have downloaded PS, LE and AE...Clouds...when i open PC so i get massage on rigth corner short time." your photoshop has problem with compalitet"....i have not put things back or used PS,,,what shall i do? LR work

    i have got new hardrive to windows 8.1....when i open my PC so i get message on lower right corner  - very short time - your photoshop has problem with compalitet....i have not used it yet or put brushes and so on back....LR is working fine...i can open photoshop without problem..and AE...what shall i do?...

    Thanks for info:
    A. Backup before doing anything advanced is recommended but not widely used.
    B. Upgrade on vanilla plain (and updated) operatiing system goes flawlessly. Upgrade on "real" computer may depend on "status" of operating system and applications installed. You may not be the last experiencing troubles.
    C. Software vendors expect that users has nearly unlimited disk size, large memory and latest processor.
    D. It is on you to find anything positive to compensate annoyances. Mental balance is in your hands ;-)

  • How to copy contents of hardrive to new hardrive on Tecra 9100?

    I've just recieved my new hardrive and need to copy the contents of the old one to the new one. The new hardrive came with no extra software. I have Norton Ghost, so naturally I went to the Copy Hardrive tool only to find it lists my current hardrive to copy to. How can I copy the contents if I need to install the hardrive? I mean surely it'll not do anything if I just put the new hardrive in?
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    Hi,
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    Go into "Control Panel" -> "Administrative Tools" -> "Computer Managment" -> "Disk Managment" and then activate the unformatted partition by making a right-click on the "Unallocated" part and click on "New Partition". The rest is easy to perform.
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  • Potential Driver Issues with OS Install on New Hard Drive?

    I want to upgrade my laptop's hardrive, but my laptop did not come with recovery discs. I did purchase a full copy of Windows 7 Professional, but I have been saving it...for when all else fails, I suppose. Whether I am able to reinstall Win 7 Home or whether I have to install Win 7 Pro, how can I be sure to reinstall all the necessary HP drivers (e.g. trackpad, cool sense, beats audio, etc.) for my machine? Is it best to download the drivers prior to installing the new hard drive and have them ready on a flash drive; or is there an easier method? Thanks.
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    Yes that is a very good question.
    It's very much advised you do a HDD error check, hard drive test from BIOS and SFC scan lastly.
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    I do back up regularly into my 2TB external drive using Macrium reflect, AOMEI back upper and also have all my latest drivers downloaded and copied to another USB along with another bootable USB with Windows OS ISO.
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    Visruth
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  • Transferring Creative Suite to new Hardrive

    Hardive of computer crashed and has been replaced. How can I transfer over my adobe creative suite to function on my new hardrive?

    You need to install it properly. Downloads here:
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