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The final step on this occasion, was that I decided to swap the drives over as I figured that it made more sense to have the 80gb drive in my MacBook and use the 60gb drive in the caddy for use as a backup. Of course the initial copy took a while but within half an hour of it finishing I'd registered and paid them my 28 dollars.

It hand-held me though the whole process. It told me that I could copy from/to the same drives that CCC had offered but this time it gave me little icons, one of which was clearly the interal drive while the other was clearly an external USB type. I reckon it's dead easy to use and I call it 'Bloody Brilliant'. It's called SuperDuper and it reckons it's easy to use. Meanwhile, SuperDuper was pointing, laughing and shaking its head, so I decided to give it a chance.

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There was a big friendly button that offerd to do this automatically but upon pressing it I was told that it couldn't find the download site and that I'd have to do it manually - with no indication of where I might go to do that. Problem 2 was that the 'smart backup options' for CCC are not 'built in' as they were not written by the author and require an additional download. In the end I figured out that the former was the internal drive and the latter was the external drive but it wasn't especially clear and didn't fill me with confidence. Problem 1 was that when it asked me where I wanted to copy from and to, the options were 'Macintosh HD' and 'Macintosh HD 1' (because the new drive had been supplied with a fresh installation of OS X as a means of wiping it). Thus I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner, installed it and fired it up.

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I decided to try CCC first on the grounds that it seemed to offer a trial of all the facilities before I parted with any cash.

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SuperDuper promised easy of use but had a 28 dollar price tag for the full version after you've done the free trial (which does not have the 'smart' features), as opposed to Carbon Copy Cloner's request for a 5 dollar donation if you like it. Assembling them was a doddle (the caddy even came with a tiny little screwdriver), and then it was on to the software.

The hard drive arrived last week and the caddy came this morning. Add on another 8 quid for a suitable USB caddy shipped from Hong Kong (the first time I'd 'risked' that actually and I was VERY pleased with the result), and all I had to do was wait for the postman. This isn't an issue for me because I tend to work with simple text files so despite the resource hungry apps that run on the Mac, my 60gb drive will, or would have been, plenty for a long time to come.Īnyway, the point is that I picked up an 80gb hard drive on eBay for 40 quid which had seen only a few months use before the owner had upgraded his own MacBook to a bigger drive.

In the same way that I had found 512mb of memory wasn't enough for my purposes, it's unsurprising that other people have found that they've filled the hard drive that came with their MacBook a bit sooner than they thought. As stated in my entry for October 16th, I'd already come to the conclusion that it would be a good idea to acquire an external hard drive for the purpose of taking a full backup or my MacBook's hard drive.īiL pointed me in the direction so 'SuperDuper' and 'Carbon Copy Cloner' and with the realisation that either one could be used to create not just a full backup, but a clone one my internal drive, which could then be swapped in the even of a major disaster, I headed for eBay.