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How To Upgrade Your MacBook Hard Drive – Part 3

Posted on 01. Aug, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Last time, I completed detailing the steps needed to clone a disk image to an external drive using SuperDuper.  The process was quite seamless and very simple, SuperDuper did a great job and stands up to its name.  We ended up doing some general comparisons between the old and new drive and are now ready to remove the new drive from the external enclosure, remove the old drive from a MacBook, and install the new drive in its place.  We’ll then boot up with the new drive to see how it went.

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How To Set Up An External Drive Enclosure

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

An external drive is an excellent way to create on-site backups of your data.  External drives are quite small and can function perfectly for taking your data with you and sharing on other host computers.  Often times, organizing large files, such as video projects, images, audio, etc. are more conveniently stored on an external drive, especially when local disk space is a consideration.  Using an external drive is one of the easiest ways to transfer a disk image to a new drive in the effort of upgrading one’s primary drive.

For my personal situation, which was to create an image of my existing drive and transfer it onto an upgrade drive, I decided that an external drive was better, faster, cheaper.

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How To Upgrade Your MacBook Hard Drive – Part 1

Posted on 28. Jul, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Just the other day, I was working away on my MacBook when all of the sudden a popup launched that said something to the effect that host drive was out of space, cannot complete operation.  I was caught totally by surprise, launched Finder, and behold I had just a bit over 200 Mb left on my drive.  Time for a drive upgrade.

Over the next few days, I’m going to show you step by step how to upgrade your Mac hard drive.  This guide is completely comprehensive.  I will cover every step from backup to installation.  Let’s get started.

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Schedule Hard Drives to Defragment Automatically

Posted on 25. Jun, 2009 by Brian.Ross.

Have you ever noticed that the more you add and subtract videos, documents, MP3s, pictures, games, and so on to your computer the slower it gets?  This is partly due to what known as fragmentation of your data.  Windows does a few funny things with your files when you uninstall and install programs all the time.

The easiest way to get your computer back up to speed is to defrag it.  Performing regular defragmentation of your hard drive will certainly improve your file and application load time.  However, in the hurry of our daily tasks we often forget about doing this, so here is a way to schedule your PC to do do it for you.

WARNING:  It is not recommend, nor is it necessary to defragment solid state drives, which includes flash drives.  Doing so may cause damage to the drive.

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