Hard Drive Update Get!
So I finally broke down and bought a larger hard drive for my macbook :) What pushed me over the edge was the fact that I could also use the drive sitting in my macbook for my PS3! It was kind of like some super bonus to the upgrade that I couldn't pass up (especially since I got my PS3 pretty cheap in the first place).
It was fairly easy to do the whole process, and even though the guides online have shown that opening up an older macbook and popping in a new hard drive is a painless process, I had my brother take care of that part for me. He's built computers before and I'd rather have someone used to that stuff take care of it. He looked at the guide I found online and laughed at how easy it was, however :)
We did run into a hiccup on my end (I told him I just needed help putting the drive in, installing everything and transferring my data is something I could do on my own). I forgot...I had to format the drive. My brother was a good sport-googling things to see what was wrong-but he knows very little about macs in general. We tried a few things before I slapped my forehead and opened up Disk Utility to format the hard drive. After I installed Leopard (rather quickly!) I transferred my data from my latest Time Machine backup. The whole process from putting in the drive to transferring my data took about 2 and a half hours-including time lost to my stupidity! Rather quick considering I had around 100GB of data to transfer.
There were a few strange things after the transfer but I really can't complain as Time Machine restored everything, and I meant everything. My files, settings, what apps I have on the dock, even the network I connect to...it's almost as if I never swapped the drive in the first place. The only odd thing is that my clock was for some reason set to Mountain Time instead of EST, and I had to re-authenticate iTunes (which I expected to have to do, tbh). Things easily fixed.
The drive is faster and I've got a whole lot of space let on my HD now :)
It was fairly easy to do the whole process, and even though the guides online have shown that opening up an older macbook and popping in a new hard drive is a painless process, I had my brother take care of that part for me. He's built computers before and I'd rather have someone used to that stuff take care of it. He looked at the guide I found online and laughed at how easy it was, however :)
We did run into a hiccup on my end (I told him I just needed help putting the drive in, installing everything and transferring my data is something I could do on my own). I forgot...I had to format the drive. My brother was a good sport-googling things to see what was wrong-but he knows very little about macs in general. We tried a few things before I slapped my forehead and opened up Disk Utility to format the hard drive. After I installed Leopard (rather quickly!) I transferred my data from my latest Time Machine backup. The whole process from putting in the drive to transferring my data took about 2 and a half hours-including time lost to my stupidity! Rather quick considering I had around 100GB of data to transfer.
There were a few strange things after the transfer but I really can't complain as Time Machine restored everything, and I meant everything. My files, settings, what apps I have on the dock, even the network I connect to...it's almost as if I never swapped the drive in the first place. The only odd thing is that my clock was for some reason set to Mountain Time instead of EST, and I had to re-authenticate iTunes (which I expected to have to do, tbh). Things easily fixed.
The drive is faster and I've got a whole lot of space let on my HD now :)