semiotech Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 So today I bought a brand new hard drive and I wanted to get my Mac OS install on it right away. I didn't want to have to reinstall on the new HD because I've set up most of my software, so I set about to find a simple route. Pretty much just 3 steps: 1) Prepare the new hard drive This was a new 1TB drive, so I decided to partition it into 3 parts. I used Disk Utility and created a GUID partition which was split into 3 volumes. 2) Use Carbon Copy Cloner to Clone the existing drive. I simply selected my current partition (osx) and copied it over to one of the new volumes (OS X). Once this was done I rebooted. 3) Boot up with iPC 10.5.6 DVD and Install! The trick here is to go into customise, but uncheck all the boxes. This way, nothing is installed except for the boot loader. It went through the motion of installation, rebooted and I was away! That's it! Now I have the new hard drive set up, and the old one still there for when I want to muck around with things like updates. Woohoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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