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So today, I upgraded my 17" MBP to a 500GB hard drive, a Samsung HM500LI. It's only 5400 RPM, but I'll trade space for rotational speed, esp. when I'm going from 300GB to 500GB. Not much I do cares about drive speed.

For anyone, a brain transplant kind of sucks, but on a laptop, it can be especially tedious, since you have to deal with external drives in some form. In my case, the only real "effort" was time, thanks to SuperDuper! for the Mac OS X partition and Winclone, for my BootCamp partition. Both of these tools made this a really painless process consisting of:

1. Clone BootCamp Vista partition to external drive


2. Swap drives in the laptop


3. Boot from "old" drive via FW800


4. Use SuperDuper! to clone Mac OS X from "old" drive to "new". Make sure to kill things like the Microsoft Database Daemon


5. Boot from "new" 500GB drive. flawless


6. Create Bootcamp partition & reboot


7. Restore Vista partition from Winclone. Note that Winclone handles moving from smaller to larger quite well. (This is my 3rd time doing this with Winclone. I started with a 40GB partition, it's now 111GB. Never.Any.Problem)

I finally threw some cash at Winclone, (donationware!), and I've had a SuperDuper! license or two for some time now. Both are fantastic bits of software that are well worth the very low cost.

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