Restoring OS X Lion and other data to a new internal Hard drive

Hello intelligent people,

I have a late 2010 Mackbook Pro 13.3 that came with Snow Leopard. I upgraded to Lion through the Mac store, when Lion was released. Now I am upgrading my internal hard drive to a 7200RPM, 750GB one.

My question is, whats the best way to reinstall Lion on it and move all my data from my old harddrive?

I have everything backed up to a Time Capsule and have not created any Lion bootable discs.

I know one way is to install Snow Leopard through the OS disc that came with my notebook and re-install Lion from the Mac store and then restoring from . Is there a more effecient, less time consuming way to do it?

I'd appreciate any sort of help here. Thanks in advance.

-Nik

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Oct 6, 2011 9:17 AM

17 replies

Csound1

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Oct 7, 2011 5:24 AM in response to ds store

Talk about a crapshoot, the drive in my MBP failed, it was a Hitachi, I replaced it with a Seagate XT, 18 months later all is well.

The drive in an iMac belonging to a client failed, it was a Hitachi.

Place your bets gentlemen

ds store

Level 7

30,855 points

Oct 7, 2011 6:03 AM in response to Csound1

Csound1 wrote:

Talk about a crapshoot, the drive in my MBP failed, it was a Hitachi, I replaced it with a Seagate XT, 18 months later all is well.

The drive in an iMac belonging to a client failed, it was a Hitachi.

It's because Western Digital bought Hitachi. 😝

I guess it's time to root for the last underdog, Toshiba.

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Restoring OS X Lion and other data to a new internal Hard drive