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WinClone – The developer seems to have dropped off of the face of the earth, but you can still download the WinClone at Cnet.

SuperDuper! The free, unregistered, version is fine.

A way to connect your new hard drive to your Mac, probably a SATA to USB connector, or an external hard drive case.

Your Mac, with the old hard drive still installed.

My Best Way to Transfer Everything, Step by Step Required Equipment I called Apple to see if I could change my hard drive without voiding that special coverage and they said that yes, so long as there was no physical damage to the computer, I would still be covered if my video died. My laptop is in the group affected by the NVIDIA Recall, so even though my 3-year AppleCare is expired, (and it was worth it – a new mainboard and hard drive later), I am still covered for a few months if the video goes kaput.

I’m not super concerned with power these days as my 3 1/2 year old battery doesn’t exactly hold a charge so I’m always plugged in anyway. Apparently the WD Scorpio Black uses the same amount of power as a normal 5400 RPM drive, but is faster. I ordered a 500GB, 7200 RPM Western Digital Scorpio Black, (yes, that’s an Amazon Affiliate link), hard drive from Amazon to replace the factory-installed drive. I had dedicated 32 GB to my Boot Camp partition, which with a Vista installed was very cramped, perhaps even more cramped than my OS X partition that made up the balance of the drive.

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This was an upgrade from the standard 120 GB drive, but three and a half years later it’s no longer big enough for me. Until I made this change it had its factory-installed 160 GB, 5400 RPM hard drive.

#WINCLONE 2.3.3 PRO#

I use a Macbook Pro that dates from the summer of 2007. It was time for a new, upgraded, hard drive, and this is how I was able to copy both my OS X partition and Boot Camp, (Windows), partitions to the new drive, and expand both partitions to fill my drive, all without re-installing any software.

In fact, every time I’ve wanted to copy a large file for the last while I’ve had to re-arrange and purge my hard drive, both in OS X and in my Boot Camp partition. For Christmas my brother gave me a copy of the game Portal, which required there to be about four gigabytes of available space on my hard drive.