ogaitnas Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Hello! I´ve installed ideneb on my notebook, it´s one hp v6000 intel variant, it´s working fine, even suspend is fine, my guitar apps are running fine, now I´m planning one upgrade to a bigger hd that come to my hands with a cheap price but I don´t want to have to reinstall everything from the beginning on the new hd. There any way to clone the installation to new hd and then expand it to use all the new hard disk ? Thanks for all the help, I´ve read a lot of posts on this forum, and get really usefull info on making my "mac" run better Sorry for any mistake on the language hehe -- Santiago Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178160-migrate-from-older-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogaitnas Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 I don´t know if my post was clear enough, I´ll try to explain what is my doubt: I wanna to clone the osx86 installation that I have on my 60gb to my new 320gb hard disk, if I use something like linux dd or partimage, should I be able to resize osx filesystem to use all the new hard disk, not sure if disk utility can do such a thing. Thanks for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178160-migrate-from-older-hdd/#findComment-1217584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender1012 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I don´t know if my post was clear enough, I´ll try to explain what is my doubt: I wanna to clone the osx86 installation that I have on my 60gb to my new 320gb hard disk, if I use something like linux dd or partimage, should I be able to resize osx filesystem to use all the new hard disk, not sure if disk utility can do such a thing. Thanks for any help. I did this exact thing recently, and it was easy. First of all, you don't need any 3rd party programs to resize filesystems or whatnot. I used a free program called Super Duper, very simple and easy to use. After the cloning, OSX was smart enough to know there was all that extra free space. Here is a simple guide: 1. Connect your new hard drive 2. Boot into your existing OSX install 3. Use Disk Utility to erase and format the new drive to Mac OS Extended 4. Download and install Super Duper 5. Using the Backup All Files option, commence with the cloning 6. To get the cloned install to boot, you need to install a bootloader on it. I used the Chameleon 2 RC that is linked right now on the InsanelyMac homepage. Simply download, install, and when it asks which HD to install it to, pick the new one. 7. Make sure in your BIOS you have it set to boot from the new HD. You're done! Edit: I just read your post more carefully and saw that you're doing this on a laptop. My experience was for a desktop, which was easy because I could just connect the new hard drive. For your case it's more complicated, because you need to have both HDs connected at the same time. One way would be to get an external HD and connect via USB; clone your install to the external, swap out your laptop's drive, boot from the external, and clone it back to the new drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178160-migrate-from-older-hdd/#findComment-1217593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogaitnas Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 Bender1012 Thanks, I´ll try that sound pretty simple. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178160-migrate-from-older-hdd/#findComment-1217599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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