Here's how I upgraded my hard drive to 320 Gigs while upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard and installing Time Machine. All while keeping all my old applications and data safe.
If you follow these instructions:
Your past work will be fossilized .
Your present work will be preserved..
And your mac will become a spacious palace to contain all your work.
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Signing UpStep 1: Gather Materials
Here's what you'll need and the links show you where you can find them:
- Sata Disk Enclosure ~$13
- 250 Hard Drive ~$115
- A few hours to spend with your computer
- Mac OS X - Leopard
- 500 Gig Drive ~$99














































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The problem is the comments from other instructablers : they get me all confused and I'm stuck where I was !…
It is ridiculous that this guy mentions zero'ing the HD (a process that took 6+ hours on my 500gb drive), which is totally unnecessary, and yet omits the REQUIRED step of selecting GUID.
This instructable should be fixed or better yet, see this web page, which is far better:
http://obscuredclarity.blogspot.com/2008/10/500gb-macbook-harddrive-upgrade-for.htmlhttp://obscuredclarity.blogspot.com/2008/10/500gb-macbook-harddrive-upgrade-for.html
Western Digital Scorpio Hard Drive - 2.5", SATA, 320 GB, 3 Gb/s, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM - Internal Hard Drive, http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital-scorpio-hard-drive-2-5-sata-320-gb-3-gb-s-8-mb-cache/q/loc/101/206459164.html
Cheers!
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"Select your current hard drive on the right, and the USB external new drive on the left"
Which, the way I'm reading the menu fields would mean I'm copying a new, blank hard drive onto my existing one? How does that help me??? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Please clarify...