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The Ol' Hard Drive Swapperoo
#210 | 17:43 |
Monday February 22, 2010
Lab Rats
Monday February 22, 2010
Sean and Andy show off the steps for swapping a notebook hard drive, including cloning your old drive, and the physical swapping of the drive. Warnings are given and gadgets are shown!
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For more information on the "click of death": labratsonline.com/clickofdeath.
Gates denies ever saying this, apparently: labratsonline.com/640k.
A big reason is coming up later in the show: Solid State Drives. Stay tuned.
More specifically: Get the hard drive, swap the drive, and then reinstall everything from scratch.
Vantec NexStar NST-D100SU Hard Drive Dock - $39.99 US.
Acronis True Image - $49.99 US.
Big list of disk cloning software and operating system compatibility at labratsonline.com/diskclone.
SuperDuper! - $27.95 US.
One site with a full list of the steps: labratsonline.com/macdriveswap.
On the new MacBook Pros, it's a LOT easier. Instructions are in the MacBook user manual.
Imation M-Class Solid State Drive and Upgrade Kit - $535.00 US.
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By capfu about two years ago
(2010-03-03 15:38:23)
(2010-03-03 15:38:23)
haha, nice shirts ^^
By slapdash243 about two years ago
(2010-02-23 22:29:09)
(2010-02-23 22:29:09)
When you put in a larger harddrive you'll also need to extend the partition on the new harddrive.If you copy an 80gb drive onto a 500gb drive your computer will just see it as another 80gb drive.The partition will have to be extended to fill the whole drive.
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