G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I received an email from a Know It All who wanted me to go more in-depth with the SSD replacement on a MacBook pro. (Episode 74) -- Should I dedicate a segment JUST to installing a SSD in a Mac and cloning/reinstalling OSX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Douglas Dewing Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Benjamin Deming Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 No need to go more in-depth, if you ask me. The most novel part was getting the adapter for the drive that replaces the optical drive anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bradley Bishop Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I don't see why. It's a pretty simple fix. Pop off the back cover, remove two screws, pop the old drive out, and put the new drive in. I don't know what else you could show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Buitendorp Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I don't see the need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Derek J.D. Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 no need for it, was straight forward already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Derek J.D. Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 how about not getting all Mac in depth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Allen Bryant Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 The hardware is not the difficult part it is moving your files off the old HDD over to the new ssd. This is not as simple as it sounds using either your time machine backup or migration assistant with the old HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bradley Bishop Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Allen Bryant That process is pretty easy on the Mac. You can use Disk Utility to just restore your old drive to your SSD (do this before swapping them and you have to be aware that if you have 1TB of data on your HD that it's not going to fit on you 240GB SSD). I think Snow Leopard and above you need to book into restore mode (Option-Shift-R while booting, I think) or just book up in the 'choose the disk' mode (hold down Option while booting) and select the restore partition. Then you go into Disk Utility and select the internal drive and click on the 'Restore' tab and restore it to your SSD drive connected via USB. The other alternative is to have the latest OS X on a usb drive and then just boot off of that and start fresh or you can go boot into Restore mode with the new SSD in and there's just enough information known in your Mac to be able to connect to apple.com and start the install process. It'll ask you to restore from Time Machine (which you should be using to back things up) or you can keep it clean by installing all of the Apps yourself and then pulling your data back from the backup. I've probably made it sound more complicated than it is but that is, in part, because there are several ways to approach the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Allen Bryant Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Bradley Bishop I started with a fresh install and intended to use my time machine backup to selectively move files and pics onto the new ssd. I managed to screw this up by not naming the new ssd the same as the old one. I also can't seem to be able to selectively move files. Apparently making an exact clone of the old drive is by far the most trouble free but that's not what I wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Allen Bryant Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Also, just remember everyone that the premise for doing a show called "Know How" is to inform people that don't "Know How". Just saying'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bradley Bishop Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Allen Bryant OK - you can go into Disk Utility and rename your volume, if that's holding you back. I've never done the Time Machine restore bit but, instead, keep my data on a separate drive. I thought Time Machine allowed you to restore wherever you liked and even prompted you. If it's hanging up on the volume name then just rename it and continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Allen Bryant Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Bradley Bishop Yeah, I eventually figured that out. That's the kind of info that I never saw in a tutorial or video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Sam Downie Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Yes please farther Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bruce Jordan Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Yes, particularly the alternative approaches to getting software and data on the new drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Would a single operating system justify a whole show? Maybe you could compare/contrast cloning/reinstalling OSX to Windows to Linux to Chromebook....wait.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Monte Bourque Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I think it would be a good idea. I just got a MacBook Pro and plan on swapping the hdd for ssd. The swap out isn't the problem, it's reinstalling osx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bradley Bishop Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Matt Fox Boot into "Recover" mode (hold down Option-Shift-R while you power up). Go to Disk Utility (off the top menu - you're not installing). Select the drive (I'm assuming you're backing up the main drive - thus why I had you boot into Recover Mode), click on New Image and then select the destination (your NAS). You'll have an image of your main drive on your NAS that you'll be able to 2x click on to mount, if you need to grab any files off of it. While you can use other cloning utilities, everything you need is in Disk Utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Sacco Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Sorry this is so late but ABSOLUTELY !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rud Dog Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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