Or an even easier way would be to use carbon copy cloner to make a bootable clone of your internal drive to an external. Do the clone, replace the drive, boot from the external, clone back.
ash Website: http://www.ashleycox.co.uk Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ashleycox2 Blog: http://daysofthegeek.blogspot.com On 01/08/2011 03:11, Robin Kipp wrote:
Hi Ricardo, um, I don't think this would work! After all the Time Machine backup isn't bootable, and requires the Mac OS Lion installer to restore a backup. I'd suggest taking a hard drive and then splitting it into 2 partitions with Disk Utility: one 8gb partition and one with the remaining space. Then, reboot and boot from the recovery partition. Then, choose reinstall Mac OS X Lion (or whatever it's called) and install this to the 8gb partition of the external drive. Afterwards, the system should boot into the new installation, so just make sure everything's OK, then boot into the initial system running Lion. Once that's done, backup the old system using Time Machine, and save that on the other partition of the external hd. Then it's time to replace the internal hd. Afterwards, connect the external hd back to the Mac Book. The cool thing is that you will now have a recovery partition present on the external hd, so you can just boot from that and choose the option to restore the Time Machine backup onto your new drive. That's it! Much easier done than said, actually. If you wanna be on the safe side though, you could still wait a few weeks until Lion can be purchased drive, though I think that's gonna cost another $69 or so. Hth! Robinfrom Apple on a thump>Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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