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Cheap and Easy Hard Drive Upgrade

Monday, January 5th, 2009 – running time 22:21
More storage and a performance boost? Upgrade your hard drive without having to re-install anything!

A new hard drive is one of the simplest and best upgrades you can perform on your hard drive. It increases storage capacity, can noticeably speed up system performance and extend the useful life your machine. Today we'll show you what drive to pick, how to install it and the best way to clone all that data from your old drive so you can boot from new hard disk, Mac or Windows, without requiring you to re-install any of your old software.

We demoed this on a pair of notebooks, but the basic software and techniques will work on desktops, too!

for more info on the software we used check out Disk Copy for PC users. If you want a more open source solution check out FOG and Clonezilla. If you want the comfort of off the shelf tools check out Norton's Ghost and Acronis True Image.

For OS X users the best solutions are the freeCarbon Copy Cloner and trial ware but free to useSuperDuper!.

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" There's a sort of system has brought you by GoDaddy. Net flicks. And square space. It's 2009 to -- kick off the deal with a fresh start by upgrading your laptop's hard drive prices have never been this low and it's a great way to extend the life of the machine already. Well by increasing performance and maximizing storage space. I don't know upgrade your laptop's hard drive today on six. Welcome the first observers -- 2000 at night it's -- begin. The new year so when -- start off on the right foot by -- your laptop has outfitted with a shiny new hard drive a big fat honking fast hard drive they are so cheap right now. It's a simple way to extend the life of your notebook plus in some cases it'll help improve system performance to deal. Here to help me out as always the guy."

" At the precursor credit that that but alleged mister Roger -- well you -- gonna say bull that my last name. As to add emphasis when you announcement today that emphasize that or the threat being a producer and -- sent it to these kinds of things letting -- So that it. See that's -- start up to rather than most and so what was life."

" That is about upgrading your hard -- actually I am I if I've run into a few issues with my MacBook one being that this Hitachi drive McCain in it is now dead self. -- actually really Internet Hitachi drives. You have all the figures that I originally had the stock sixty or eighty gig unit and then I thought -- need more space in these things are so cheap so -- two years ago. And in a plastic two year's us open last at least five. -- is the bad start which of whatever Pataki travel stars are often have the highest ratings based on performance. But you seem to have a higher return rate for failures of the program we're going to be showing off the pair Western Digital drives chip created to. -- that the brand we love a lot of people out there actually like Samsung. In any case right now although were at the beginning of 2008. You pick up a 320 gigabyte drive for well under a hundred dollars some 500 gigabyte drives or just -- below the hundred dollar spot. It is a great time to be upgrading the storage in your notebook or desktop for that matter so Roger. We'll move quickly here where we are again but first of all it's 2009 and 2000 about doing that for a couple months. No one of the first -- you need to do is find out what kind of connector you have right -- we have regulars -- tires standard industry sat. -- serial AT connector. Most notebooks in the past three years to use the style of connector if you have an older laptop. You use what -- call shadow or parallel. ATA interface. Yeah mostly computers that produces notebooks the last couple years or perhaps early TA. The older and cheaper your notebook is more likely it is to have the older you connector. And the second thing you want to figure out its capacity T want three 251320. If you want 500. I go to 320 -- right now that's kind of the sweet spot between both size and dollar amount. Now if you just wanna upgrade something don't want to spend too much you can get to 54 may be around sixty. Where does gigabyte drives even less than one more thing -- you before you by the drive -- whether you actually get to the drive inside your notebook. Yes now it Patrick consistent because you're you're gonna use my Sony laptop. Except for the fact that my Sony laptop. Cannot be opened in the way that you can get at target about crack in the case they can be open once it can be put together actors -- probably do us future segment on how to build a laptop case. -- Now the thing coming along with that one other thing you want to kind of be aware of this these things actually come in different. Fitness those. Anderson you're stock everybody selling nine millimeter drive. They are except for some of the new 500 or twelve point 52. So they will not fit in some drive -- the larger desktop replacement laptops usually can take those because they're a bit bigger spaces where it. If you using something like a MacBook or even kind of a sub. Notebook they're not gonna -- it's gonna be too tight. Generally speaking unless you have like a gigantic -- trees size -- exactly video games do you mean -- track the vast majority of there there are going to be I guess that dad's a simple matter of looking at the specs on you know on the website on the box. -- favorite sources for drugs. Typically -- either -- Inouye. PC laptop or for a Mac they get going to Mac sales are comment of the world computing all the capacity -- gonna look at cash."

" In spindle speed. 32 megabytes is becoming common on the larger desktop drives eight megabytes is pretty typical for notebook drive for the occasional gusts to sixty megabytes the ideas that. More cash. Is better same thing for spindle speed faster spent the speech should be better. Back in the day city 200 would have been he expects that 5400 RPM well aerial density -- disks now is so high that means that these crammed together so tightly. That performance difference in the there's the speed that that the disk actually spins around inside the drive. Isn't -- noticeable lot of the time so 5400 -- the -- about sending 200 if you can get it and you might want to -- is around on the form to see if there any issues with. It basically heat inside the notebooks. Sony to order drives generally generally -- more heat and some notebooks deal with that not so well compared to others."

" Now before you move on with the process of installing any of hard drive you want to move the data off your existing hard drive and putting it on anyway. I mean after all what's the point of you know installing our -- install everything. From scratch unless you have an operating system installed that's so traded up over the years -- just need to do a clean install."

" I can -- yesterday I generally do a clean install operating system we ever have created new hard drive in this case were actually rolling everything over in one fell swoop because my IT department asking not to upgrade the operating system. Yes Roger set up a couple of external hard drives like this you could also use a USB. Two serial ATA adapter that just plug into the into the drive we have to have the tears are using those instead of the less expensive. Adapters just plug it drives."

" Mean oftentimes who -- look what you need an external drive can't you just stick it in and copied over -- bring -- laptops typically do not have more than one day for carcass if you have like. This cause you know that I haven't found -- he has to drive bays. Forcefully it was ordered with only one. Interface -- so the other one is just empty space that's pretty unusual these days especially about something smallest seventeen inch screen. So you're gonna need to get some sort of firewire USB or if you had he set available in your notebook go with and he said the case the benefit of this is that any software you use. We'll see that as an internal -- drive so it doesn't matter what she used as long as they can do disk imaging. -- From one drive to another you can use without any god driver issues you're gonna notice a performance difference between the USB 2.0 he's had -- yes he said it is quite a bit faster. Yes and is not just by a little bio line. Now of course you can be limited by spindle speed and of course drives beat itself. But overall if you you do had to be set to go with he says that I've always found it to be a lot less troublesome and a lot quicker. Especially if you're moving you know say 200 gigabytes worth of your hard drive over to anyway."

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" Just a minute ago I mentioned to ghosting or imaging your drive what that means is. I do a bit for bit copy. Of all the data on one hard drive to another drive. Unlike a file copy -- like in windows it copies everything that includes the boot record the file system. And any files that may or may not be seen by the operating system hidden files files that. Typically windows will not copy over specially the system kernel or any kind of bus system dependent files. Very very important if you want to have -- bootable disk when you're done. Now if you want to go with something off the shelf. You used application called Norton ghost or the economist shoes which I've used both in the work very well. So what do you recommend for free option if you want something free and it's -- years I recommend easiest disc copy. The advantages of that particular application is that it supports firewire USB straight out the -- cool there's also HD clone. But the free version only supports USB one transfer speeds. So -- where. Yeah it's it's gonna be a lot longer using -- found that the free application versus disk copy disk copies really easy. What you download the application it's a nice so. So what you need to do is take a blank CD to burn up that I -- to a disk. In just drop in your notebook and what you do you boot up from the CD-ROM drive is your first. Bootable device and you get brought up to the screen writer and you basically have two options. This copy and partition copy. Disc copy will copy the entire disk. Over Q and you disk. The partition copy only copy of partition over so discount people an image an entire drive say for restoration likely to have everything exactly how I like -- created this image using discounting. Partition and maybe April. Take a single multiple partitions we're gonna copy additional -- that you can copy additional partitions after you you do feel whole process over again. The only reason why you would do partition copy -- copy is if you have one of those notebooks that come with that one system manufacturers partition. All the you know former drivers and lots of that you don't really want me to twenty. Copy over the data I would use virtual -- and for most people of this copies. Good. Because it copies everything on the drive including multiple partitions so click next click next. And then -- sexually selected this that you want. -- will be disc zero if you're curious this -- Because the way you know computers aside tried in this case disk one would be your external hard drive exactly you know is a good way to tell is if you have a lower capacity drive often times this number -- would be like. A 120 or eighty gigabytes that you and you want will be 320 or around 300. Even like forty of the reduced actually looked because it was the brand of the hard drive for the different disks that you highlight them. -- and we're going to click next. We did it this copy and now we can copy over as you can see -- used to strike last night. But that's fine because you're going to override it registered to don't do it man. Entire drive and what it's done it's telling me what my final disc will look like."

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" Square space does that tell you more about it is systems that are pretty. By many as refill on the editor on assist them in and -- tell you about my experience with -- so I used to use a it from another. Blogging platform and I found that I was spending way too much time on the back. And setting up plug and installing it on on the web servers or any of that -- got the right version of the software. I'm spending way too much time on you know the back and as opposed to my content. I recently switched its worst days. Super -- if we can wake blogging platforms can just write what you are right. Posted what you want to ask you don't worry about -- the back into itself taking care for you hosting included. So I highly recommend it though. My audience of one hi mom is actually getting a lot more content. Switched others I highly recommend it if you're interested in blogging platform. Check out -- they've got us this."

" Now what we're waiting for the -- pace sickly data copy you're gonna be waiting for awhile because there's only so fast you move data out yes either hard drive. Looks about the Mac version this yes it's basically the same thing except for the software on OS-X you're gonna want to use carbon copy clone -- horse. And I can't say that they -- super duper and that's spelled with an exclamation point. Carbon copy corner is free super duper is free for limited functionality including drive cloning. Now site though both are vastly superior in our opinion to a time machine for backups also. Meaning people have great success with time machine. Most of our friends and acquaintances have not so we tend to avoid its if you enjoy it please please continue to use it and be happy. So you're playing your drive firewire is ideal USB 2.0 is not so ideal -- more commonly available and follow the instructions and sit back how easy is it. Take a look at the screen. You go in the general advance you well pick the drive you want to use and the target drive in here. You can choose to back up all files or one of various upsets on that one. And that you can either erase the drive is you go along or you can do smart updated copy new files kind of different files. When you're done you can restart from you drive you can set that you drive to startup disk we suggest you do nothing if you're copying it over. And stay at the advanced and it's. It's thirty seconds and you're done and you hit go and you wait. And sit back process can take a long time to watch movies it'll walk. Take a walk your dog people up at a neighbor's dog something."

" Now the think you're having done this before when I think you have to want to keep in mind is as this copies everything over if you could if you use on OS-X. For example -- migrated over from a previous machine all those dependency is all those issues bushel again. What I like to do is actually reinstall OS-X from scratch. And -- do all the updates in the news a migration tool to pull over all the applications. From my old hard drive typically -- be -- again in the the case external case that's -- rather than cloning your existing contents -- you drive you install the new drive put the old drive in the case. Put a fresh installation of OS-X on your new drive inside your machine and it copies them over. Yet once you do the install for -- it gives you an option for migration tool that's actually better to do with the migration now than later after everything's set up because it just works a lot faster and put in the drive into the firewire port and let it run. And then literally get you just walk away and -- discuss is doing the exact same thing except it's not pulling over the entire library or press. That you need or have an oftentimes an idea that I find out. Because it started from scratch had it's actually not fragmented so things actually -- a little -- Yet and as reported earlier in the show part of the reason we're doing direct clone from this drive to the new drives as we screw up chuck configuration on the -- machines we have you Mikey is gonna come out with sticks and beat this. Quietly. Probably subsequently. -- the other reason why to clone is such a good option is that if something were to happen to either one of these machines and their hard drives go quickly. I still I think it is so when you're done with this do not delete that data on that hard drive the world market keep it keep -- for a month -- month. And then we'll see how that you -- work out if they're fine yeah yeah you can start backing up on -- like you've only got to CD's that you can be used archer for something else. But until that time I don't like to give a couple of weeks of club -- and to make sure that drive I -- because it's had a guy but if Seagate in Seagate actually started clicking on -- within a week hard drives usually tend to die. Almost immediately like in the first 24 hours 72 hours week. Or they can run for review yet so it's always a good time to and it's worked everything out and then wonder when they're satisfied everything's up to nothing -- not gonna have any crashing. No hardware conflicts. Yes you can be used are driving you have you know you need to have working. -- more typical things also used if you have a machine used to test hardware or software in an excerpt from sort of you know a base level every time you increase that base level in the -- all the software and -- you installed it keep that on the as a clone damaged one thing we did discuss about this. After all the data is copied over we're gonna take the hard drive the new hard drive out of this case and install it. In the MacBook or it can go there now the physical installation is in some -- it's a little more difficult for people never done it before. One thing to do is pick up the correct tools go to those Google home people both of them have some excellent and very cheap meaning screwdriver set -- do but you know what. Everytime someone in the industry -- at this in my bag because the certain books -- that light versus someone who has a really nice looking. Very functional incredibly well made. Jewelers screwdrivers that that's always at home in their toolbox that never were around in the let's just."

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" So on this -- he's really. Just need to undo the top screw. -- at the -- crew pull off the who have the -- but the top. So the cool thing about a lot of drives. These days is they come on Trace a specially the senator was the obvious hope paper plastic tab that you just. Pull -- and flat out that drive. And once that's done guys that's just a matter of and doing these screws. On all four corners replacing it with the new drive that I want an -- with it and then despite a packet and since these are all key you really can't cited in backwards. I didn't see the stills you're looking at right now it's. Basically super easy swap out hard drive on a MacBook but do three screws. Pull the stainless steel tab out. Don't touch the memory tabs and then pulled a little tab all the hard drive out. And then slide the little his it would just like the hard drive Baghdad that's a great thing about today prizes each -- misled and you just -- of backing it's it's again sister alt key you can't put that you can't put in the wrong way. So stability correctly the first time -- aperture upside down so. Make sure you were you -- it before you. Force it. Pay attention or or even better yet you -- about school photo. Camera on your cell phone and take a picture of the drives -- sliding it out that way though with side goes up when you're sliding back. Yes and that I mean these things are very easy to do that anyone can do -- now. And it's such a great way it and it you know increased storage space. And if you have let's kind of sluggish system oftentimes -- at least give us a slight boost if not a tremendous boost. To the overall system for ports you with a lot more you copy a lot of big files back and forth what it's like Photoshop -- for some strange reason you restart your system a couple times a day. I think that's it -- that everything a week but the store to store."

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" There's a sort of system has brought you by GoDaddy. Net flicks. And square space. It's 2009 to -- kick off the deal with a fresh start by upgrading your laptop's hard drive prices have never been this low and it's a great way to extend the life of the machine already. Well by increasing performance and maximizing storage space. I don't know upgrade your laptop's hard drive today on six. Welcome the first observers -- 2000 at night it's -- begin. The new year so when -- start off on the right foot by -- your laptop has outfitted with a shiny new hard drive a big fat honking fast hard drive they are so cheap right now. It's a simple way to extend the life of your notebook plus in some cases it'll help improve system performance to deal. Here to help me out as always the guy."

" At the precursor credit that that but alleged mister Roger -- well you -- gonna say bull that my last name. As to add emphasis when you announcement today that emphasize that or the threat being a producer and -- sent it to these kinds of things letting -- So that it. See that's -- start up to rather than most and so what was life."

" That is about upgrading your hard -- actually I am I if I've run into a few issues with my MacBook one being that this Hitachi drive McCain in it is now dead self. -- actually really Internet Hitachi drives. You have all the figures that I originally had the stock sixty or eighty gig unit and then I thought -- need more space in these things are so cheap so -- two years ago. And in a plastic two year's us open last at least five. -- is the bad start which of whatever Pataki travel stars are often have the highest ratings based on performance. But you seem to have a higher return rate for failures of the program we're going to be showing off the pair Western Digital drives chip created to. -- that the brand we love a lot of people out there actually like Samsung. In any case right now although were at the beginning of 2008. You pick up a 320 gigabyte drive for well under a hundred dollars some 500 gigabyte drives or just -- below the hundred dollar spot. It is a great time to be upgrading the storage in your notebook or desktop for that matter so Roger. We'll move quickly here where we are again but first of all it's 2009 and 2000 about doing that for a couple months. No one of the first -- you need to do is find out what kind of connector you have right -- we have regulars -- tires standard industry sat. -- serial AT connector. Most notebooks in the past three years to use the style of connector if you have an older laptop. You use what -- call shadow or parallel. ATA interface. Yeah mostly computers that produces notebooks the last couple years or perhaps early TA. The older and cheaper your notebook is more likely it is to have the older you connector. And the second thing you want to figure out its capacity T want three 251320. If you want 500. I go to 320 -- right now that's kind of the sweet spot between both size and dollar amount. Now if you just wanna upgrade something don't want to spend too much you can get to 54 may be around sixty. Where does gigabyte drives even less than one more thing -- you before you by the drive -- whether you actually get to the drive inside your notebook. Yes now it Patrick consistent because you're you're gonna use my Sony laptop. Except for the fact that my Sony laptop. Cannot be opened in the way that you can get at target about crack in the case they can be open once it can be put together actors -- probably do us future segment on how to build a laptop case. -- Now the thing coming along with that one other thing you want to kind of be aware of this these things actually come in different. Fitness those. Anderson you're stock everybody selling nine millimeter drive. They are except for some of the new 500 or twelve point 52. So they will not fit in some drive -- the larger desktop replacement laptops usually can take those because they're a bit bigger spaces where it. If you using something like a MacBook or even kind of a sub. Notebook they're not gonna -- it's gonna be too tight. Generally speaking unless you have like a gigantic -- trees size -- exactly video games do you mean -- track the vast majority of there there are going to be I guess that dad's a simple matter of looking at the specs on you know on the website on the box. -- favorite sources for drugs. Typically -- either -- Inouye. PC laptop or for a Mac they get going to Mac sales are comment of the world computing all the capacity -- gonna look at cash."

" In spindle speed. 32 megabytes is becoming common on the larger desktop drives eight megabytes is pretty typical for notebook drive for the occasional gusts to sixty megabytes the ideas that. More cash. Is better same thing for spindle speed faster spent the speech should be better. Back in the day city 200 would have been he expects that 5400 RPM well aerial density -- disks now is so high that means that these crammed together so tightly. That performance difference in the there's the speed that that the disk actually spins around inside the drive. Isn't -- noticeable lot of the time so 5400 -- the -- about sending 200 if you can get it and you might want to -- is around on the form to see if there any issues with. It basically heat inside the notebooks. Sony to order drives generally generally -- more heat and some notebooks deal with that not so well compared to others."

" Now before you move on with the process of installing any of hard drive you want to move the data off your existing hard drive and putting it on anyway. I mean after all what's the point of you know installing our -- install everything. From scratch unless you have an operating system installed that's so traded up over the years -- just need to do a clean install."

" I can -- yesterday I generally do a clean install operating system we ever have created new hard drive in this case were actually rolling everything over in one fell swoop because my IT department asking not to upgrade the operating system. Yes Roger set up a couple of external hard drives like this you could also use a USB. Two serial ATA adapter that just plug into the into the drive we have to have the tears are using those instead of the less expensive. Adapters just plug it drives."

" Mean oftentimes who -- look what you need an external drive can't you just stick it in and copied over -- bring -- laptops typically do not have more than one day for carcass if you have like. This cause you know that I haven't found -- he has to drive bays. Forcefully it was ordered with only one. Interface -- so the other one is just empty space that's pretty unusual these days especially about something smallest seventeen inch screen. So you're gonna need to get some sort of firewire USB or if you had he set available in your notebook go with and he said the case the benefit of this is that any software you use. We'll see that as an internal -- drive so it doesn't matter what she used as long as they can do disk imaging. -- From one drive to another you can use without any god driver issues you're gonna notice a performance difference between the USB 2.0 he's had -- yes he said it is quite a bit faster. Yes and is not just by a little bio line. Now of course you can be limited by spindle speed and of course drives beat itself. But overall if you you do had to be set to go with he says that I've always found it to be a lot less troublesome and a lot quicker. Especially if you're moving you know say 200 gigabytes worth of your hard drive over to anyway."

" So this. Stein out of -- one of responses of today's show godaddy.com. To want to make an impact on mind godaddy.com has what you need to keep your personal information only from spammers actors that you created through me. Private domain registrations GoDaddy does help protect your privacy by keeping your address phone number. And more out of the public database plus there's go to class do when you check out and keep an additional five dollars off any quarter of thirty dollars or more. The restrictions of feisty site for details get -- of the Internet as we godaddy.com. Support but support."

" Just a minute ago I mentioned to ghosting or imaging your drive what that means is. I do a bit for bit copy. Of all the data on one hard drive to another drive. Unlike a file copy -- like in windows it copies everything that includes the boot record the file system. And any files that may or may not be seen by the operating system hidden files files that. Typically windows will not copy over specially the system kernel or any kind of bus system dependent files. Very very important if you want to have -- bootable disk when you're done. Now if you want to go with something off the shelf. You used application called Norton ghost or the economist shoes which I've used both in the work very well. So what do you recommend for free option if you want something free and it's -- years I recommend easiest disc copy. The advantages of that particular application is that it supports firewire USB straight out the -- cool there's also HD clone. But the free version only supports USB one transfer speeds. So -- where. Yeah it's it's gonna be a lot longer using -- found that the free application versus disk copy disk copies really easy. What you download the application it's a nice so. So what you need to do is take a blank CD to burn up that I -- to a disk. In just drop in your notebook and what you do you boot up from the CD-ROM drive is your first. Bootable device and you get brought up to the screen writer and you basically have two options. This copy and partition copy. Disc copy will copy the entire disk. Over Q and you disk. The partition copy only copy of partition over so discount people an image an entire drive say for restoration likely to have everything exactly how I like -- created this image using discounting. Partition and maybe April. Take a single multiple partitions we're gonna copy additional -- that you can copy additional partitions after you you do feel whole process over again. The only reason why you would do partition copy -- copy is if you have one of those notebooks that come with that one system manufacturers partition. All the you know former drivers and lots of that you don't really want me to twenty. Copy over the data I would use virtual -- and for most people of this copies. Good. Because it copies everything on the drive including multiple partitions so click next click next. And then -- sexually selected this that you want. -- will be disc zero if you're curious this -- Because the way you know computers aside tried in this case disk one would be your external hard drive exactly you know is a good way to tell is if you have a lower capacity drive often times this number -- would be like. A 120 or eighty gigabytes that you and you want will be 320 or around 300. Even like forty of the reduced actually looked because it was the brand of the hard drive for the different disks that you highlight them. -- and we're going to click next. We did it this copy and now we can copy over as you can see -- used to strike last night. But that's fine because you're going to override it registered to don't do it man. Entire drive and what it's done it's telling me what my final disc will look like."

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" Now what we're waiting for the -- pace sickly data copy you're gonna be waiting for awhile because there's only so fast you move data out yes either hard drive. Looks about the Mac version this yes it's basically the same thing except for the software on OS-X you're gonna want to use carbon copy clone -- horse. And I can't say that they -- super duper and that's spelled with an exclamation point. Carbon copy corner is free super duper is free for limited functionality including drive cloning. Now site though both are vastly superior in our opinion to a time machine for backups also. Meaning people have great success with time machine. Most of our friends and acquaintances have not so we tend to avoid its if you enjoy it please please continue to use it and be happy. So you're playing your drive firewire is ideal USB 2.0 is not so ideal -- more commonly available and follow the instructions and sit back how easy is it. Take a look at the screen. You go in the general advance you well pick the drive you want to use and the target drive in here. You can choose to back up all files or one of various upsets on that one. And that you can either erase the drive is you go along or you can do smart updated copy new files kind of different files. When you're done you can restart from you drive you can set that you drive to startup disk we suggest you do nothing if you're copying it over. And stay at the advanced and it's. It's thirty seconds and you're done and you hit go and you wait. And sit back process can take a long time to watch movies it'll walk. Take a walk your dog people up at a neighbor's dog something."

" Now the think you're having done this before when I think you have to want to keep in mind is as this copies everything over if you could if you use on OS-X. For example -- migrated over from a previous machine all those dependency is all those issues bushel again. What I like to do is actually reinstall OS-X from scratch. And -- do all the updates in the news a migration tool to pull over all the applications. From my old hard drive typically -- be -- again in the the case external case that's -- rather than cloning your existing contents -- you drive you install the new drive put the old drive in the case. Put a fresh installation of OS-X on your new drive inside your machine and it copies them over. Yet once you do the install for -- it gives you an option for migration tool that's actually better to do with the migration now than later after everything's set up because it just works a lot faster and put in the drive into the firewire port and let it run. And then literally get you just walk away and -- discuss is doing the exact same thing except it's not pulling over the entire library or press. That you need or have an oftentimes an idea that I find out. Because it started from scratch had it's actually not fragmented so things actually -- a little -- Yet and as reported earlier in the show part of the reason we're doing direct clone from this drive to the new drives as we screw up chuck configuration on the -- machines we have you Mikey is gonna come out with sticks and beat this. Quietly. Probably subsequently. -- the other reason why to clone is such a good option is that if something were to happen to either one of these machines and their hard drives go quickly. I still I think it is so when you're done with this do not delete that data on that hard drive the world market keep it keep -- for a month -- month. And then we'll see how that you -- work out if they're fine yeah yeah you can start backing up on -- like you've only got to CD's that you can be used archer for something else. But until that time I don't like to give a couple of weeks of club -- and to make sure that drive I -- because it's had a guy but if Seagate in Seagate actually started clicking on -- within a week hard drives usually tend to die. Almost immediately like in the first 24 hours 72 hours week. Or they can run for review yet so it's always a good time to and it's worked everything out and then wonder when they're satisfied everything's up to nothing -- not gonna have any crashing. No hardware conflicts. Yes you can be used are driving you have you know you need to have working. -- more typical things also used if you have a machine used to test hardware or software in an excerpt from sort of you know a base level every time you increase that base level in the -- all the software and -- you installed it keep that on the as a clone damaged one thing we did discuss about this. After all the data is copied over we're gonna take the hard drive the new hard drive out of this case and install it. In the MacBook or it can go there now the physical installation is in some -- it's a little more difficult for people never done it before. One thing to do is pick up the correct tools go to those Google home people both of them have some excellent and very cheap meaning screwdriver set -- do but you know what. Everytime someone in the industry -- at this in my bag because the certain books -- that light versus someone who has a really nice looking. Very functional incredibly well made. Jewelers screwdrivers that that's always at home in their toolbox that never were around in the let's just."

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" So on this -- he's really. Just need to undo the top screw. -- at the -- crew pull off the who have the -- but the top. So the cool thing about a lot of drives. These days is they come on Trace a specially the senator was the obvious hope paper plastic tab that you just. Pull -- and flat out that drive. And once that's done guys that's just a matter of and doing these screws. On all four corners replacing it with the new drive that I want an -- with it and then despite a packet and since these are all key you really can't cited in backwards. I didn't see the stills you're looking at right now it's. Basically super easy swap out hard drive on a MacBook but do three screws. Pull the stainless steel tab out. Don't touch the memory tabs and then pulled a little tab all the hard drive out. And then slide the little his it would just like the hard drive Baghdad that's a great thing about today prizes each -- misled and you just -- of backing it's it's again sister alt key you can't put that you can't put in the wrong way. So stability correctly the first time -- aperture upside down so. Make sure you were you -- it before you. Force it. Pay attention or or even better yet you -- about school photo. Camera on your cell phone and take a picture of the drives -- sliding it out that way though with side goes up when you're sliding back. Yes and that I mean these things are very easy to do that anyone can do -- now. And it's such a great way it and it you know increased storage space. And if you have let's kind of sluggish system oftentimes -- at least give us a slight boost if not a tremendous boost. To the overall system for ports you with a lot more you copy a lot of big files back and forth what it's like Photoshop -- for some strange reason you restart your system a couple times a day. I think that's it -- that everything a week but the store to store."

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