Just got a new internal hdd for white 13" inch macbook. I have an external hard drive but no firewire. Can I use superduper to clone my hd using usb 2 or should I try something else... like timemachine?
I was also wondering if I could just take out the old drive and install the new one and then just transfer the data from the old hdd to the new via usb 2???
ok, now i'm thoroughly confused, I've been looking around on what I should exactly do with my new hardware but keep getting different answers.
Basically, I have a new western digital 640gb scorpio blue hard drive.
i want to install it in my late 2009 white 13" macbook.(250GB)
I also want to keep all the same applications that I currently have on my old hdd.
What do I have to do to make this happen?
If you have a USB enclosure for your drive, yes--SuperDuper! will create a bootable clone of your current drive. Then install the cloned drive into your MacBook, and you're good to go.
1. Put the new drive into a 2.5" SATA enclosure and plug it into your MacBook via USB.
2. Using Disk Utility, format the new drive: Make 1 partition from the drop-down list, name it, format as Mac Extended (Journaled), choose a GUID Partition Table in Options.
3. Clone your old (internal) drive to the new one in the enclosure with SuperDuper.
4. Test the new drive to make sure everything works correctly by booting to it using the Option key at startup.
5. Physically switch the drives so that the new one is now internal and the old one is in the enclosure as a spare external drive.
The steps are somewhat simplified and can be addressed individually. I have found most of the details by using a similar method as explained [Here|http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130]. Note that the free/trial version of SuperDuper will work for this task.
