How do you upgrade to a new hard drive on mac without an enclosure?
I have a new 2.5" hard disc drive for my MacBook Pro, and I know how to upgrade it if I were to have an enclosure for it, but I don’t want to buy one only to use it for ten minutes to upgrade my HDD and never use it again. I won’t use the enclosure with my old drive, so I don’t need it after i upgrade.
The main problem you’re facing is transferring the data without installing the drive in anything. Without having something to power the drive and allowing a connection you are not going to be able to transfer data. You need to have something to host the drive, either an older computer or some sort of enclosure. One thing you might try is buying an enclosure and then returning it again the next day. Since hardware is something that most places typically allow you to return this might work. I should check into it first before buying and trying to return it. Once you have something to host the drive you can use Disk Utility to format the new drive. Next repair permissions on your current primary drive. Then use TinkerTool System, MacJanitor or Onyx to force run all you maintenance routines, clear caches, logs and browser histories and downloads. Clone your drive using SuperDuper or similar software. Then swap the drives and restart your computer from the cloned drive. Check all your programs to make sure that everything is functioning properly. If you experience any troubles then use Disk Utility and repair your permissions.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
The main problem you’re facing is transferring the data without installing the drive in anything. Without having something to power the drive and allowing a connection you are not going to be able to transfer data. You need to have something to host the drive, either an older computer or some sort of enclosure. One thing you might try is buying an enclosure and then returning it again the next day. Since hardware is something that most places typically allow you to return this might work. I should check into it first before buying and trying to return it. Once you have something to host the drive you can use Disk Utility to format the new drive. Next repair permissions on your current primary drive. Then use TinkerTool System, MacJanitor or Onyx to force run all you maintenance routines, clear caches, logs and browser histories and downloads. Clone your drive using SuperDuper or similar software. Then swap the drives and restart your computer from the cloned drive. Check all your programs to make sure that everything is functioning properly. If you experience any troubles then use Disk Utility and repair your permissions.
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