Can I copy my entire 500gb hard drive (with all programs, appl, etc.) from my MacBook OSX 10.6.8 to this 500gb external?
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Sorry, I run Windows, don't do "I" products, the actual available storage is slightly less than 500GB's, so if you need 500 I'd go bigger, there is a 750 & a 1TB on Amazon
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yes, use Time Machine. it's the native backup app for Macs. and for the love of stuff... DON'T UPGRADE PAST SNOW LEOPARD. not because of this hard drive backup solution... don't do it because Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks are all crap.
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I use it on my Macbook as a time machine drive. I just plugged it in and it backs my machine up without any manual steps. So it can be used as an external without using any of the software that may have been on the drive. I hope this helps
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I don't think you can, at least with the hardware clone feature. According to the docs it clones the partition. I have cloned a smaller drive to a larger one and then had to expand the smaller partition to take advantage of the larger drive. The cloned partition was the exact size of the original partition, not the size of the data on the original drive.But you can mount drives in here in addition to cloning them. So, if you use the device to mount the drive you could use a software based cloning solution such as Carbon Copy Cloner on the Mac to do exactly what you are attempting. I've done it many times myself.I hope that helps. I don't think you can, at least with the hardware clone feature. According to the docs it clones the partition. I have cloned a smaller drive to a larger one and then had to expand the smaller partition to take advantage of the larger drive. The cloned partition was the exact size of the original partition, not the size of the data on the original drive.But you can mount drives in here in addition to cloning them. So, if you use the device to mount the drive you could use a software based cloning solution such as Carbon Copy Cloner on the Mac to do exactly what you are... » Read More I don't think you can, at least with the hardware clone feature. According to the docs it clones the partition. I have cloned a smaller drive to a larger one and then had to expand the smaller partition to take advantage of the larger drive. The cloned partition was the exact size of the original partition, not the size of the data on the original drive.But you can mount drives in here in addition to cloning them. So, if you use the device to mount the drive you could use a software based cloning solution such as Carbon Copy Cloner on the Mac to do exactly what you are attempting. I've done it many times myself.I hope that helps. « Show Less
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Absolutely. Use Carbon Copy Cloner and that will work great. However, I would just take the old HDD and stick it in a drawer as a backup drive, get another SSD and use it as external super fast storage.
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Yes, You may have to format to work. The one I bought was exFAT. exFAT is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.5 or newer, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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Dee, there are multiple options to do this, I may need additional information to help you. If you just purchased a MacBook Pro and you attemping to transfer data from the Seagate drive from one Mac to another Mac, then attach your Seagate to your Mac and simply copy and paste whatever you wish to place on your Mac. If you are trying to migrate data from a PC to a Mac, then use a ethernet cable and Migration Assistant to transfer data from your PC to your MacBook. Migration Assistant is an app on your Mac. Assuming your Seagate is not formatted for Windows, then connect it to your Mac and copy and paste your data. Your question is very technical in-nature, as there multiple ways to transfer data to your Mac, including using Command R on your Mac and recovering your data as a Time Machine Back-up. Please tell me specifically about your configuration and I will be in a better position to help you.
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First buy the thunderbolt connector. It is less expensive to buy it from Apple. I then purchased an external disk drive. Good luck
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Yes, I used time machine from Mac to back up my files. Worked slick when I moved them to another Mac.
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While I don't run another OS from it, I don't see why not? just hold down the "Option" key while booting and select it as the boot drive, but in truth I'd check with Apple's KB about running Boot Camp from an external drive.
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I'm running 10.8 as well, so I'm not sure, but I wouldn't think you'd have any problems. The drive comes with some software but none of it is required to use the drive. More interesting though is why you would want a USB 3.0 drive with a Mac running 10.5. Anything stock from that era doesn't have USB 3.0. So unless this is a Mac Pro that you've swapped a new USB controller card into, you can find cheaper 2.0 drives. Otherwise, spring for the $20 to upgrade your OS and then you won't have any worries.
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I am assuming you are using a Windows machine since you have asked the question for this particular variant of the product. Just open the folder containing all the files/folders you want to copy. Then press Win+E to open Explorer. Find the connected hard drive under removable devices or something. Select everything you want to copy from the other window and drag it to this window. Everything will be copied and you will be able to see it in the window showing the contents of the hard drive. In case you are on a Mac, you can find the hard drive in the left sidebar in a Finder window. You can do the same. Find your files, select them and drag them over to the hard drive. It will get copied. You can also use the Backup feature on Windows or Time Machine on a Mac to automatically back up everything regularly.
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Yes as said before, but you will need software to use the extra 250GB. The straight clone is just a copy of the original 250GB and the new drive thinks it's only a 250GB drive. The software will let you allocate the remaining for an alternate drive or a continuation of the same drive. I used EaseUS Partition Master and it worked fine.
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My recommendation would be to get the Windows version and leave it as a single NTFS partition. Just load the included utility on your Mac so that it will read/write to an NTFS disc and use the single large partition for both platforms. Makes it easy to share files cross-platform that way.
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Yes, the drive is compatible with a Mac, you'd just have to reformat the drive for the Mac file system, not a big deal to do though.
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How you perform a backup isn't unique to this drive. It does not come with any software. You'll have to check your operating system's instructions. I'm guessing you are using Windows. If you are using the Apple OS, Time Machine takes care of all the work.
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Sorry, no idea. Stopped using Macs about 15 years ago. But afaik, no, its a standard hard drive with no other special pieces.
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Hi Gabby, I don't see why it wouldn't work. With an older Mac, you could prob use a smaller external drive though, say 500gb.