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Kyle86

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Hello fellow MAC enthusiasts,

I have a slight issue and I am not tech savvy enough to be able to deal with it.

I have a MacBook and MacBookPro both with Leopard on.

I have replaced the MBP HHD with a new DigiWestern 320G and would like to copy the transfer all files and software from my MacBook to the new MBP HHD. I have moved a lot and have lost both install disks (very stupid I know, could possibly be in storage but thats half the country away). Is it possible to do a straight transfer (doing an exact copy from one onto the new HHD) without having to reinstall OSX 10.5 on the new Hard-Drive first.

Your comments and help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,

Kyle
 
No - you could in theory use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone all files and even bless the system to be bootable, but MacBook and MacBook Pro are different - and you should have those discs somewhere for being able to fix any potential problems of the above method.

Carbon Copy Cloner *may* be able to do it - but a direct file by file manual copy won't do - you'll need all invisible files too, and everything with correct permissions.
 
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