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Finally for my hard-drive upgrade, I choose the easy way, to backup before (twice) and restore just thereafter.

Backup(s)

I have a live backup with TimeMachine on an Airport-connected Hard-drive, it’s unsupported but functional and unmatched in the Windows world!

I choose to do a bootable backup on an external USB 2.5inch hard-drive, with Carbon Copy Cloner, to be able to restart even in case of a failure or anything, booting directly from the USB drive (still unmtached in Windows )

Restore

My first, and unique restore, has been done booting from my external USB2 2.5inch hard-drive (LaCie Porsche 160GB), booting from it, launching Carbon Copy Cloner, and copying this live backup to my new internal hard-drive. One hour and I restored a full live Mac OS X, with my applications, my OS X settings, each settings of the application, and running.

Also totally unmatched on Windows

To Resume

Do a good backup using Carbon Copy Cloner, restore after hard-drive swap, and you will be up and running in a matter of hours, and this is the kinda tricks that made me choose Mac OS X over Windows!

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I told you about my MacBook Pro that came with a little 200GB hard-drive, and my willingness to upgrade it with a modern 500GB hard-drive that have far more space and offers better performances

So it’s time, and I prepare myself to upgrade, backuping my Mac OS X partition in 2-ways (using my TimeMachine and Carbon Copy Cloner), and my Windows Vista partition using WinClone.

I will also reinstall totally Mac OS X and the different applications I use, create new Account for personal use, development and administration, and resize the Windows Vista partition (from 40GB to 60GB).

I will told you about all that while doing my tasks. My firsts is to list all Applications installed and select the one I would like to keep or upgrade, from the one I wont reinstall, and then do a full bootable backup using Carbon Copy Cloner.

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