Replacement HDD for MacBook

bwana said:
I wonder if it has anything to do with the hidden 10gb partition I set up as a PS swap disk or if it was just looking for the old drive?
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There's an option under "On Successful completion" called "Set <TARGET_DRIVE> as Startup Disk" which I took to mean it will make the target drive a bootable drive. But it seems that option changes the firmware setting for which drive to boot off - in the progress screen, it had that and something like "make <TARGET_DRIVE> bootable."
 
Just an update. After installing, I started doing updates, and while that was busy downloading (slow connection at home at the moment) I started copying my applications back and installing some stuff. After the updates rebooted, I was presented with the account setup page again, and try as I might, I couldn't get out of it. If I quit it, it just starts again. Rebooting didn't make a difference either. So I re-installed AGAIN.

This time I did my updates one by one, rebooted after the ones that needed it, and then decided to give the migration assistant a shot. Wow! Two hours later my desktop is back and everything looks just like it was on the old disc. Just quicker :D
 
Just finished an iChat with my mother and she's on her way to the cube to pick herself up a new MB so I'll be getting her hand-me-down black MB. I'll put a new 7200 in my MBP and then that 250gb 720 in the MB. :)
 
It usually has do do with hardware and firmware limitations. (although i am not that in depth with part changing etc, i am pretty sure this is the reason...)

Its like trying to put a 1TB on PPC xserve or a 1 TB in the older IMACS (although the 1tb works in the imacs, it makes them so ludicriously slow its not worth it...)

Like i said, i could be wrong about the macbook, but i dont think so. Mactracker might have the answer (but again i have seen mactracker horribly wrong on this...)
 
NameOfBeast said:
Could someone confirm if this is the case? A 320GB limit seems a slightly arbitrary limit. I know some of the earlier external HDD enclosures had a problem with larger SATA drives, but not for laptops.
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are u talking about external or internal? externally u could plug in whatever u feel like.....

i am in process of confirming it now..
 
tau1z said:
are u talking about external or internal? externally u could plug in whatever u feel like.....

i am in process of confirming it now..
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External --- this was a problem with specific enclosures that couldn't handle, I think, anything over 500GB.

Thanks for confirming --- must know before I commit to getting a 500GB drive. Hope it is possible, since I'll else soon have to move my Itunes library off onto an external drive.
 
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