Trying to free up some space on my Macbook HD

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Mar 23, 2009 | 05:22 PM

#21

Craigger

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Originally Posted by Statman

Get SuperDuper (which you should have in any case). Make a complete bootable back-up of you HD (using an eternal drive...USB or firewire). When the new drive is installed just restore and you have everything you had before with a lot more space. I just did this myself.

It was my understanding the USB is unbootable... am I incorrect?

Mar 23, 2009 | 06:15 PM

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Statman

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yes I think you are correct if you plan on re-booting from the external hd (which is the easiest). i think you can restore from a usb, but not boot from it...

I used this procedure