New hard drive, or new laptop?

I've got a 2006 MacBook. It's slowing down, humming, has some panoc kernals. Is it better to get a new MacBook Pro, or just get a new, bigger SSD?

nvnv0 - Lion may be OK for some people.   You can't stop everyone from running Lion. I've just updated to 10.7.3 and the bugs I had with 10.7.1 are gone.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2465
But I agree, only get a new computer if you are ready for Lion, as you may not be able to downgrade. The bottom of the following tip tells you if you'll be able to at minimum run Snow Leopard.   If not, and you aren't ready for Lion, try to get an older computer:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455
See my* http://www.macmaps.com/usedrefurbished.html
If you are forced to decide on a newer computer.   A new hard drive for a 2006 machine is fine, so long as the hard drive is rated for 1.5 Gbps data path. If it isn't it may not work with your machine.
* Links to my pages may give me compensation

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I HAD TO BUY A NEW HARD DRIVE FOR MY LAPTOP. I AM TRYING TO RE-INSTALL MY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 12 BUT IT KEEPS SAYING MY SERIAL NUMBER IS INVALID. WHAT DO I DO?

I HAD TO BUY A NEW HARD DRIVE FOR MY LAPTOP. I AM TRYING TO RE-INSTALL MY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 12 BUT IT KEEPS SAYING MY SERIAL NUMBER IS INVALID. WHAT DO I DO?

jessicar
Just user to user....based on past and current history, Adobe Tech Support is not going to help you with a technical issue which is preventing you from using your purchased serial number for Photoshop Elements. Version 12 is not the current version. And, the Adobe Tech Support is limited even for the current version which is 13. If this matter involves a purchased activated serial number trapped on a crashed computer while you are trying to install on a 3rd computer, then probably Adobe Chat Activation can be of assistance. If that is the case and you want to explore that possibility, then click on the following link
Contact Customer Care
Photoshop Elements
Adobe ID, Signing In
Adobe ID, Sign In, Account Help
Chat Panel
If the above link does not hold its set, then you will need to navigate to the Chat Panel using the above titles as guides.
Are you getting one of those "too many computers with your serial number" messages? Then the above should apply to your situation.
Before the above consider....
a. For Photoshop Elements technical issues please post your question in the Adobe Photoshop Elements Forum. Somehow your
question got posted in the Adobe Premiere Elements Forum.
b. Have you verified your Photoshop Elements serial number at the Adobe web site (http://www.adobe.com) - after signing in with your
Adobe ID and Password, type My Products in the Search field and follow the path to your product in My Products. Click on Adobe
Photoshop Elements 12 in your list to reveal the serial number.
c. Do the install with antivirus and firewall(s) disabled.
ATR

I had to get a new hard drive for my laptop. Need help?

I had to get a new hard drive for my laptop. Downloaded iTunes and now it says "this ipod it synced with another itunes library.Do you want to erase this ipod and sync with this itunes library." Will it erase everything on my touch?

It says so, so yea I guess....

I havev installed a new Hard Drive on my laptop but cannot find my Photoshop Elements product box with the serial number to install Elements 10 or Elememts Premier 10. How can I find out the serial / installation codes for these?

I havev installed a new Hard Drive on my laptop but cannot find my Photoshop Elements product box with the serial number to install Elements 10 or Elememts Premier 10. How can I find out the serial / installation codes for these? I saw a reply however, it was not my name and assumed it was for someone else. Now timed out. Can UI still have help on this matter please?

If you registered PSE before, go to the main page of adobe.com, sign in and go to your account and you should find the serial number there in your purchases.

Best way to install a new hard drive into a laptop?

what's the proper way to install a new hard drive into a laptop? i've heard that cloning can result in very slow boot up and shut down times, and that the proper method is install the new hard drive, install OSX, and restore data from time machine. comments? thanks very much

Cloning doesn't cause the resulting system to slow down in and of itself, but it does retain any previous problems, which can build up over time and result in poor performance. (The same can be said of installing new system versions on top of old versions.)
A clean OS X installation will give you a clean base to start from. Mass-restoring data and applications will undo some of that benefit, but by no means all.

New hard drive and new memory install (Powerbook G4)

Hi everyone, I hope the community can help me through a rough patch! I tried searching through the forum but haven't found specific answers to my dilemma. Here's the deal: I've installed a new hard drive in a Powerbook G4, the original hard drive died.
I have the Leopard install retail disc, and want to install the OS on the new hard drive. I also have a RAM upgrade that I want to install. So, in order, here are my questions:
1) To install OS, do I just turn the computer on and insert the install disc? Or do I need to do some other command to do the install, such as holding a key(s) down when I insert the disc? Is there anything else I need to do to format the new hard drive properly?
2) Can I upgrade the RAM before I install the OS, or must I install OS first? And if I can install the RAM prior, will it help speed up the install process?
3) Finally, how long should the install process take? What screens should I expect seeing? Will I be staring at the spinning beach ball for a long time?
I look forward to any helpful feedback, thank you so much!

b5160519 wrote:
The weirdest thing is that the laptop's disc drive was accepting discs, and now it won't. I highly doubt that there's a hardware failure there, I certainly didn't abuse the computer during this process. Now when I try to push a disc in, it goes about 99% of the way in with just a hair sticking out, but I can't even force it totally in.
This suggests that you didn't quite get everything right when you reassembled the G4 after replacing the hard drive. Clearances are very tight & even just a grommet or support bracket slightly misaligned can prevent everything from fitting together properly. You don't say which Powerbook G4 model you have, but for example, note the number of detailed steps & items marked "important" in the PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) Hard Drive Replacement Instructions & especially the comments below figure 16 about the optical drive.
Whatever the Powerbook model, I strongly suggest that you refer to a detailed take-apart & replacement guide for anything you might have overlooked -- many models have disassembly/assembly quirks that are not obvious, such as the order that screws need to be removed or replaced, when & where to use a "spudger" to unhook a hidden latch, & so on. A good source for these guides is iFixit's PowerBook pages. Click on your model, then find the guide for the hard drive replacement. These will generally be among the most detailed available, with plenty of pictures & all important screw length info -- it is very easy to get confused about where screws go that differ by only one or two mm.

How do I retrieve the music off my iPod after installing a new hard drive on my laptop

My laptop harddrive was just replaced, and I didn't have my iTunes backed up. When I went to sync my iPod with my new iTunes, it says that my iPod is already synced to another iTunes library, so I can't sync it to mine. But that old one was on my dead hard drive. How can I retrieve my music off my iPod?

Copy the entire iTunes folder from the old computer to the new computer.

Installing New Hard Drive for New OS

I have a MBP (late 2008), and have loved it since I first acquired it. I am currently running OSX Lion 10.7.4, and I plan on upgrade to Mountain Lion when it is released.
My MBP came with a 250-gig HD in it. I am wanting to swap it out for a 500 Seagate Hybrid drive before I install Mountain Lion. My current hard drive is backed up on a 1-T external drive using the Time Machine app.
My question is this...I have never restarted a Mac from scratch. Prior to my current MBP, I used PC. (Praise the Lord for discovering Mac!) As a PC user, it took the largest part of a day to backup, reformat, and reinstall programs and drivers. Are there any tips that you may offer on making the installation of a new drive a simpler task.
Questions:
1. Will it be better to install Lion and then upgrade to Mountain Lion, or should I just install the new version straight?
2. Will Time Machine be able to reinstall everything on my drive as it was, or do I have to reinstall each app?
3. If I have to reinstall apps, what is the best way to handling the licensing registrations for various apps like Adobe CS5.5, iWork, Office 2011, etc.
Thank you for any advice for making the transition to a new drive an easier project.
Pastor Wynn

Well, he's taking the easy way out - I know from my various cloning tests and from talking to others is that at first (after Lion was introduced), neither SuperDuper nor CCC could clone a recovery partition - the reasons: the recovery partition is a separate partition and only one partition can be cloned at a time and second, this partition is hidden and as such can't be cloned. Since then, CCC has added the capability of restoring/adding it.
SuperDuper can't do it, so they want you to waste several hours and bandwidth downloading and installing the entire OS again. You can download it without having the recovery partition (since you can download it as often as you want), but it's not quite the same process. Yes, it will restore the recovery partition, but, if you won't use it because you don't want to spend hours downloading it, then you don't really need it except for repair purposes or in an emergency.
I've tried different ways of restoring and backing up and personally, I don't like to have to download/install it again (although I've done it). I prefer being able to rely on my clone - no internet connection needed. But, since the recovery partition also includes the old Disk Utility capabilities of repairing your hard drive (without having to boot off another drive), I do want that as well. So, for now, it is CCC for me including creating a recovery partition.
I think I'm the last person on the planet who has never used the Apple App Store.
Aside from downloading OS/Lion/updates, I have never used it, so you're in line right with me.
And, I've never done a block level clone because your destination drive needs to be the same size as your source which, in my case, is ridiculous: my internal is 1 TB but I'm only using 100 GB of that right now. So I'm supposed to "waste" 800 - 900 GB empty space of an external drive to get a block level - I decided a regular clone is fine and I have my externals split into 5 - 6 partitions each containing 2 clones of each OS and machine I have.

HOW DO I SAVE APPLICATIONS INSTALILNG A NEW HARD DRIVE WITH NEW OS?

I recently purchased a used G5 that is loaded with programs. I am getting signs that the hard drive is getting ready to crash. I installed a 1TB hard drive and formatted it. What I want to do is install leopard on the TB hard drive but still transfer all the applications and programs over from the old HD. A lot of the programs I don't have serial codes for. Can I do a new OS instilation on TB HD with new users and everything and still transfer all the programs over that I don't have serials for and them work perfectly without entering in new serials.

No. Either ask the original seller for the discs, manuals, and serial numbers, and ensure they destroy their copies of the data, or purchase your own license for the software that they did not supply on disc and/or legitimate license code. The license to the software is limited to whomever has the software in hand with its codes. Purchasing Leopard will only entitle you to the contents of Leopard. Leopard retail on its own does not include iLife, except for iTunes, though Apple does have a Mac Box Set which includes iLife and iWork. The original discs that came with the Mac still have a hardware test which you can't get other than by requesting them from the original seller.

My old mac crashed and new hard drive has new Pages on it but I cannot open any documents. Says to save on 09, I had 08 but it crashed when the computer crashed. Now what?

Open with new Pages and it says my documents are too old, must be opened and saved in 09, but I don't have 09, just fragments of 08 from my crashed hard drive. What do I do now?

Do you still have your installer DVD?
Reinstall iWork '08 and upgrade it to v3.03:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=432&mforum=iworktips ntrick
Then open your documents and Export them to Word .doc/x to open in Pages 5.2.
You can also ask Apple to supply you with iWork '09 so you can access your work.
If that is unsuccessful, since Pages 5.2 is a severe downgrade, missing 110 features, get the iWork '09 boxed set from Amazon for $19.99.
Peter

New MBP - register and then put in new hard drive or new hd first?

Hello,
I have a new/refurbish 15" Macbook Pro on the way.
I have ordered a Hitachi 7200rpm drive along with more memory from a 3rd party vender.
My question is, what is the order of operations swapping the different HD in a new notebook?
Keep in mind that this is a new machine with no data on it yet so there is no fear of losing anything.
Is it;
- Don't start the machine
- Swap hard drives
- Start off the install disk
- Install the OS
- Register the machine?
*If so, how do you start off the disk in this case? Can you insert a disk without the machine going? How will the disk get in the machine to start off of?
Or is it:
- Start the machine
- Register the machine with Apple
- Insert the disk
- Shut down
- Swap hard drives
- Restart off the disk
- Install the OS

It doesn't matter when you register.
Ultimately it comes down to preference. I got my MBP then ordered the hard drive - I set it up and started using it with the existing drive, then used carbon copy cloner to move everything over to the new drive.
I have an external FW hard drive that I did a generic Mac OSX install to so I have a bootable drive - I cloned my internal drive to the external drive, then took out the internal drive, stuck the new larger drive in, booted off my external FW drive and then restored to the new larger internal drive. I did each copy overnight so the time involved really didn't bother me

New hard drive and new Ipod importing

I have had to replace my hard drive. I now have some songs on my new computer hard drive and some songs on my Ipod. How do I make sure that both the Ipod songs and the Itunes songs are imported to both and they match each other.

Copying from iPod to Computer threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5044027&#5044027
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=893334&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
Also these useful internet articles...
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
http://playlistmag.com/secrets/2006/12/twowaystreet20/index.php
http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/
Patrick

TS1347 I had to get a new hard drive on my laptop PC. Now I am unable to sync my contacts and calendar from my iphone to the outlook software on my PC. Although they are backed up on icloud, I really want the information on my computer.

I cannot figure out how to sync my contacts and calendar from my iphone with my windows PC. The message during the itunes sync process is that information is being backed up to both the cloud and my PC. However the Outlook software remains blank. What can I do??

Hi Stacey,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You may find the tips in this article helpful with resolving the error you're seeing:
iTunes Store: "An unknown error occurred (-9808)"
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2753
Best,
Jeremy

How to install a new hard drive in hp 2000 laptop

My hard drive crashed and I need to install the OS in the new hard drive. The laptop came with windows 8 already installed. I can't recover anything from the old hard drive. There were no windows 8 back up disc or boot up disc with laptop. I purchased it new about 1.5 years.

You will need full Model number and Serial number to order Recovery Media. Both usually on a label under the battery.
How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number
If you live in the US, contact HP info Here.
If you live in another part of the world, start here>>Contact HP
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New hard drive replacement on my MacBook Pro.

I bought a new hard drive for my laptop but I do not have the disc to reboot the new hard drive, can someone help me?

Do you know the exact model you have?
You can try booting while holding down Command Option R keys. If you have a more recent machine it'll boot to Internet Recovery.

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