Hard drive replaced
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All done. And remarkably easily I may say. Process was:
Replacing the disk took minutes. Replacing the software took a lot longer, as I knew it would. Upgrading the speed of the disk was my main goal. I know that Turtle posted some great stuff on drive replacement on his Mac as he wanted extra storage. I don't need as much as him, but I wanted a 7200Rpm disk. Notes 8.5 beta on this Mac is much faster now, and that would be the main disk hog, aside from VMware when its needed. So, in line with all my recent experience with Macs, this was painless, and for those on Tiger still - buy Leopard for the Time Machine alone - damn it's fantastic.
All done. And remarkably easily I may say. Process was:
- Run a time machine backup to my external drive
- Run another copy backup to my terastation
- Make sure the Mac is fully charged
- Unplug and replace the drive
- Reinstall Leopard
- I chose not to restore applications from time machine (I know this is an old windows hang-up of mine - but I will feel better if I started afresh)
- Reinstall applications
- Restore data from time machine
Replacing the disk took minutes. Replacing the software took a lot longer, as I knew it would. Upgrading the speed of the disk was my main goal. I know that Turtle posted some great stuff on drive replacement on his Mac as he wanted extra storage. I don't need as much as him, but I wanted a 7200Rpm disk. Notes 8.5 beta on this Mac is much faster now, and that would be the main disk hog, aside from VMware when its needed. So, in line with all my recent experience with Macs, this was painless, and for those on Tiger still - buy Leopard for the Time Machine alone - damn it's fantastic.
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Cheers!
Posted by Lars Berntrop-Bos At 22:30:00 On 11/05/2008 | - Website - |