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- #MOUNTAIN LION TRIM ENABLER MAC OS#
- #MOUNTAIN LION TRIM ENABLER UPGRADE#
- #MOUNTAIN LION TRIM ENABLER PLUS#
Plus you'll have a fresh, clean OS to make the most of your speedy SSD. You'll lose system prefs but you'll retain Keychains, email settings, and everything you really need.
#MOUNTAIN LION TRIM ENABLER MAC OS#
Posted by holgate at 6:21 PM on December 10, 2012ĭepending on how old your source drive is and whether you experience any non-hardware issues (files just become corrupt over time and we collect all manner of dross) you might consider using Carbon Copy Cloner to backup your source drive to the 1T, installing the SSD, formatting it Mac OS Extended (Journaled), then performing the Clean Install on it, running Software Update a couple of times to update everything, then using Migration Assistant to move all your data to the SSD. (My clean install of ML cleared out a problem where certain remote network connections would crap out.) Why a clean install? Because it gives you a chance to audit what you've got on your system, and whether you actually use it, and because it can also clear out some cruft that may have ended up there. migrating your stuff from your just-removed mechanical drive, either with Migration Assistant or manually. "borrowing" a copy of Mountain Lion from someone who has the installer, burning it to a USB key, and installing it onto your new, clean SSD that way removing the hard drive and adding the SSD
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taking a clone of your existing hard drive on your external.
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Your bundled copy of Norton Ghost isn't going to work on your Mac. If you rely upon PowerPC applications, then support for that goes away in Mountain Lion, so it's not a no-brainer upgrade, but if not, you should probably take the leap. The Mac App Store only runs on Snow Leopard (specifically, 10.6.6 or greater). Mountain Lion (10.8.2) is only available from the Mac App Store. You're in a bit of a pickle with regard to your current version of OS X. Posted by griphus at 4:49 PM on December 10, 2012 Also, never run defrag or benchmarks on an SSD. THe reason you want to install the OS update after is that it'll be a lot faster of a process that way (as the SSD is much faster than the HD.) A "clean install" means you'd just be installing the OS onto the SSD for a fresh boot rather than cloning your current HD onto thereĨ30s are fine (I'm using one right now) but make sure you use Trim enabler as Trim isn't enabled by default. Also, get an external USB encasement for the HD you're taking out, as it will make a perfectly serviceable external HD. However, if you have super-duper important files, back them up to your external separately from the image of your hard drive that you're making with a cloning utility. I don't know about Leopard to Mountain Lion, though. Going from Lion to Mountain Lion preserves your files unless you tell it not to. If you want to preserve your hard drive as it is now, clone it - I don't have any advice as to which utility - and install the new OS after you re-create the image on the SSD. Did they have some sort of firmware problem? posted by Brian Lux to Technology (30 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favoriteįind your MBP model here for a visual step-by-step guide. Are Samsung 830's safe to use with Macs now. To clone the drive should I use the bundled Norton ghost or superduper, or carbon copy or just the apple OS native drive cloning utility? Why use one rather than the other?
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Before I start cloning drives should I upgrade my OS? What is a "clean install"? I probably have the original DVD that came with my MBP - why would I want to reinstall that? Doesn't reinstalling the OS wipe all your docs and files? I could do with a numbered step-by-step walk-through but only up to the physical replacement of the drive, which I'm fairly confident about. I want to do this properly, I don't mind doing it the long way if it means it will all happen without problems. I have a Samsung 830 256 SSD and an 8gb RAM Upgrade sitting on my desk which I am about to install but I'm a bit nervous about what to do first. I'm also semi-permanently plugged into an external 1TB disc where I keep my itunes library and Time Machine back up.
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Apologies for a very similar thread to those posted before but I haven't been able to find an answer on askmefi or elsewhere.