x25-m Rocks! How to Clone Mac Hard Drive?

Quote from Intel website:

Wait less. Do more.

Why wait for a traditional hard disk drive to spin up? Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel Solid State Drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness. And for laptop PCs, the lower power needs of Intel SSDs translate to longer battery life and lighter notebooks. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence.

Max sequential reads: 250MB/s, Max sequential writes: 100MB/s

I bought this for my Christmas presents and I am very impressed with the performance. My old hardisk took 1:20 to boot while the new SSD took only 35 secs. It’s incredible!

Here’s the steps I used to clone my old hard drive to SSD by using Disk Utilities.

  1. Start up from the Mac OS X disk that came with your Mac. To do this, insert the CD or DVD into your Mac, and hold down the C key while your Mac restarts.
  2. Go ahead select your language. Don’t worry: You’re not installing Mac OS X again – this is just what you have to do to get to Disk Utility. When the menu bar appears, select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
  3. When Disk Utility opens, you’ll want to select your source. This is the hard drive you want to clone and/or backup. After you have a source, select the Destination. This is the hard drive you want to save the backup image to.
  4. Click Restore and you’ll end up with a perfect copy of your hard drive. Restart your computer and you’re good to go!

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Alvin Luo in Mac

Bootcamp Partition Error: “Files cannot be moved”

So are you having this problem when trying to create partition in Boot Camp Assistant?

Even though your available volumes have more than 100GB?

Your disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.

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You DO NOT need to format the disk until you have tried these steps:

1. Try Create Smaller Partition

Let say you are creating a partition volume of 20GB, try make it 15GB; or may be even less the error still occurred.

2. Disk De-fragment

Install iDefrag and make sure you use the Full System scan instead of the Quick System. You will need to boot from CD in order to run the Full System scan. It took around 2-3 hours to run the full defragment depends on your hardisk space.

If none of these work, then you got to back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format the disk as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume.

Please leave a comment if the above methods work for you. Good luck!

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Alvin Luo in Mac