New Hard drive for Macbook Pro 13"

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ERH1962 Author

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New Hard drive for Macbook Pro 13"

I purchased a new seagate 500Gb 7200.4 HD, I know I have to format and Im gona do a fresh install should I erase the drive first and zero data even if its a new drive could this help or is it overkill what if the drive is all ready formated also what is a bare drive?

MacBook Pro 2.2GZ 320 GB Seagate 7200 HD 4GB RAM Unibody, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 9, 2009 9:21 AM

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Answer 1

eww

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Dec 9, 2009 9:49 AM in response to ERH1962

A 'bare' drive is a drive not in an enclosure. It's what your old drive will be after you remove it from the MBP, and it's what you'll put in to replace it. A bare drive can easily be mounted in any of several kinds of enclosures for more convenient use as an external drive.

You don't need to sero the new drive before partitioning and formatting it. You do need to partition and format it, because coming from the factory it will be formatted for use only in a Windows PC. Use the GUID partition scheme (a single partition is usually best for your internal drive), and format the partition as Mac OS Extended, Journaled.

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cmueller

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Dec 10, 2009 11:45 AM in response to ERH1962

ERH1962

Is there a reason you have posted two topics on the same issue? Your other topic is "New Hard Drive for 13" macbook pro".

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ERH1962 Author

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Dec 10, 2009 4:15 PM in response to cmueller

Yes 2 topics both labeled the same but different questions the first one dealt with the SATA 1.5 and 3 gigabit issue and the second dealt with the formating and zero data so sorry to have labeled them the same.

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