![]() Using Disk Utility format your new hard drive.If your Mac isn’t already on, boot from your old hard drive.Plug your new hard drive into your Mac, using whatever connector you have.WinClone – The developer seems to have dropped off of the face of the earth, but you can still download the WinClone at Cnet.SuperDuper! The free, unregistered, version is fine.A way to connect your new hard drive to your Mac, probably a SATA to USB connector, or an external hard drive case.Your Mac, with the old hard drive still installed.My Best Way to Transfer Everything, Step by Step Required Equipment I called Apple to see if I could change my hard drive without voiding that special coverage and they said that yes, so long as there was no physical damage to the computer, I would still be covered if my video died. My laptop is in the group affected by the NVIDIA Recall, so even though my 3-year AppleCare is expired, (and it was worth it – a new mainboard and hard drive later), I am still covered for a few months if the video goes kaput. I’m not super concerned with power these days as my 3 1/2 year old battery doesn’t exactly hold a charge so I’m always plugged in anyway. Apparently the WD Scorpio Black uses the same amount of power as a normal 5400 RPM drive, but is faster. I ordered a 500GB, 7200 RPM Western Digital Scorpio Black, (yes, that’s an Amazon Affiliate link), hard drive from Amazon to replace the factory-installed drive. ![]() I had dedicated 32 GB to my Boot Camp partition, which with a Vista installed was very cramped, perhaps even more cramped than my OS X partition that made up the balance of the drive. ![]() This was an upgrade from the standard 120 GB drive, but three and a half years later it’s no longer big enough for me. Until I made this change it had its factory-installed 160 GB, 5400 RPM hard drive. I use a Macbook Pro that dates from the summer of 2007. It was time for a new, upgraded, hard drive, and this is how I was able to copy both my OS X partition and Boot Camp, (Windows), partitions to the new drive, and expand both partitions to fill my drive, all without re-installing any software. In fact, every time I’ve wanted to copy a large file for the last while I’ve had to re-arrange and purge my hard drive, both in OS X and in my Boot Camp partition. For Christmas my brother gave me a copy of the game Portal, which required there to be about four gigabytes of available space on my hard drive.
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