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
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BIG BIG MISTAKE ..... youre making a linchpin deathtrap for your data trying to shove everything on a single fragile HD.
Dont suffer the tragedy other people make, buy another or 2 more HD, theyre cheap as dust.
The number of people who have experienced terror by having a single external HD backup is enormous. One failure that WILL HAPPEN, and kaput,......all gone!
Dont do it, its all about redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
follow here:
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Deleting them off your computer is fine....having only ONE copy is extremely BAD.
The Tragedy that will be, the tragedy that never should be
Always presume correctly that your data is priceless and takes a very long time to create and often is irreplaceable. Always presume accurately that hard drives are extremely cheap, and you have no excuse not to have multiple redundant copies of your data copied on hard drives and squirreled away several places, lockboxes, safes, fireboxes, offsite and otherwise.
Hard drives aren't prone to failure…hard drives are guaranteed to fail (the very same is true of SSD). Hard drives dont die when aged, hard drives die at any age, and peak in death when young and slowly increase in risk as they age.
Never practice at any time for any reason the false premise and unreal sense of security in thinking your data is safe on any single external hard drive. This is never the case and has proven to be the single most common horrible tragedy of data loss that exists.
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