Comments on: Macbook Pro Hard-drive Upgrade – Part 2 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/ Dedicated to bringing you free simple and practical tips for everyday Mac and PC Users Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:53:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: greg http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/comment-page-1/#comment-1189 greg Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:25:31 +0000 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/?p=110#comment-1189 @bas Ah... that would have saved me some time. Thanks for letting me know. :razz: @bas

Ah… that would have saved me some time. Thanks for letting me know. :razz:

]]> By: bas http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/comment-page-1/#comment-1188 bas Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:53:51 +0000 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/?p=110#comment-1188 greg, i had the same size problem with my windows partition using winclone. but found the solution in the winclone menu Tools>Expand Windows Filesystem, which then expanded the restored windows partition to the full size of the new partition (AFTER having restored to the original small partition size).. hope it's of any use for the future. greg, i had the same size problem with my windows partition using winclone. but found the solution in the winclone menu Tools>Expand Windows Filesystem, which then expanded the restored windows partition to the full size of the new partition (AFTER having restored to the original small partition size).. hope it’s of any use for the future.

]]> By: Emily Pepperman http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Emily Pepperman Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:38:07 +0000 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/?p=110#comment-129 Hi Greg, Yes I indeed missed this page... THANKS! I think I can just reformat my windows partition and start fresh... just was going to try and save the time. thank you!!!! :-) Hi Greg,
Yes I indeed missed this page… THANKS! I think I can just reformat my windows partition and start fresh… just was going to try and save the time.
thank you!!!! :-)

]]> By: greg http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/comment-page-1/#comment-127 greg Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:51:50 +0000 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/?p=110#comment-127 Hey Emily, Thanks for writing and glad I could be of help! Unfortunately SuperDuper! does not backup bootcamp partitions. Did you happen to see that there are multiple pages to this article? This <a href="http://greg-loesch.com/mac/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/3/" rel="nofollow"> page </a> should be of particular interest. WinClone is free and worked pretty well for me when I just wanted to restore a bootcamp partition of the <b>exact same size</b>. When it came to actually restoring the data on a bigger partition, I ran into problems (by problems, I mean it just reverted the partition to the smaller size... somehow). I had to do a clean install :cry: I will say that I didn't have much on my partition, so I wasn't terribly motivated. I may have had problems because I was going from FAT32 to NTFS. If your partition was already over 32GB, then I suspect you may be fine. I'd recommend maybe posting over on WinClone's web-forums. They should be happy to help out. Hope that helps! :smile: Hey Emily,

Thanks for writing and glad I could be of help!

Unfortunately SuperDuper! does not backup bootcamp partitions.

Did you happen to see that there are multiple pages to this article? This page should be of particular interest. WinClone is free and worked pretty well for me when I just wanted to restore a bootcamp partition of the exact same size. When it came to actually restoring the data on a bigger partition, I ran into problems (by problems, I mean it just reverted the partition to the smaller size… somehow). I had to do a clean install :cry: I will say that I didn’t have much on my partition, so I wasn’t terribly motivated.

I may have had problems because I was going from FAT32 to NTFS. If your partition was already over 32GB, then I suspect you may be fine. I’d recommend maybe posting over on WinClone’s web-forums. They should be happy to help out.

Hope that helps! :smile:

]]> By: Emily Pepperman http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Emily Pepperman Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:04:16 +0000 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/?p=110#comment-125 Thank you so much for your post... right when I first got my macbookpro I did take the plunge and updated the ram myself cheaper from 2 GB to 4 GB.. it went well... now I find myself in the same position of running out of hard drive space.. I am using VMWare and have a bootcamp windows XP partition. So I would like to backup my whole computer and restore as is... but then have the added space. Actually I would like to make my windows bootcamp partition bigger... but have a feeling I will have to reinstall windows... does SuperDuper backup your bootcamp partition as well? Thanks! Thank you so much for your post… right when I first got my macbookpro I did take the plunge and updated the ram myself cheaper from 2 GB to 4 GB.. it went well… now I find myself in the same position of running out of hard drive space.. I am using VMWare and have a bootcamp windows XP partition. So I would like to backup my whole computer and restore as is… but then have the added space. Actually I would like to make my windows bootcamp partition bigger… but have a feeling I will have to reinstall windows… does SuperDuper backup your bootcamp partition as well? Thanks!

]]> By: tesla coil http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/comment-page-1/#comment-119 tesla coil Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:13:41 +0000 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/?p=110#comment-119 Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you’ll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you’ll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the

]]> By: greg http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/comment-page-1/#comment-55 greg Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:43:55 +0000 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/?p=110#comment-55 I can't say I have. :???: I haven't really tried anything to fix it though. I think I/we may have just "permanently" bent something just enough to be noticeable. If you happen to find a solution, let me know! :smile: I can’t say I have. :???:

I haven’t really tried anything to fix it though. I think I/we may have just “permanently” bent something just enough to be noticeable.

If you happen to find a solution, let me know! :smile:

]]> By: Rafael http://greg-loesch.com/mac/110/macbook-pro-hard-drive-upgrade-part2/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Rafael Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:05:41 +0000 http://greg-loesch.com/mac/?p=110#comment-54 I went through my second MBP hard-drive replacement, this time with a 500gig Samsung, and also this second time I got the ever-so-slight gap that I find really annoying. Did you find a solution, yet? Cheers Rafael I went through my second MBP hard-drive replacement, this time with a 500gig Samsung, and also this second time I got the ever-so-slight gap that I find really annoying. Did you find a solution, yet?

Cheers
Rafael

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