You don’t need to bother installing OSX on the drive because if you dupe it with SuperDuper it will copy your complete drive, OSX and all! So just unplug the old drive and put the new one in after using SuperDuper.

This is a very low risk operation as far as upgrades are concerned, because at the end of the day, you still have your old hard drive which has all of your data safe and sound on it. You can always put it back in!

So do the swap yourself, and after you change the drives, but before you reassemble your laptop, boot it up and make sure it’s working. After you see the OS boot screen, you can power it down and put it together.

Cheers,

John P.

I’m a bit of a newb, but pretty capable. I have a question or two that might seem obvious to you, but would be so appreciative if you could answer.

I got the 640 Freeagent Go drive in my hot little hands – yay! And I found someone whom I can pay a reasonable rate to physically swap the drives for me. However, I can’t find anyone who can promise to turn it around in less than 24 hours mostly b/c transferring the data is the big time suck. So I want to set up the drive and dupe the data myself, so that way I’m only hiring the outsider to do the labor, which hopefully they can turn around quickly.

Can you just tell me if this sounds like the right plan of action:

1) install OSX on the new drive.
2) dupe my current hard drive – I have copy of Super-Duper and was planning to use that.

Is it really that simple? Or is there some extra step to take or mistake to avoid that might seem obvious to you but not to someone who’s never done this by themselves before?

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

Amanda

John P.

Thanks much!

Amanda