software too?

[djporter91]

Originally Posted by MacCetera

I've done this many times for clients - with OWC's USB bare drive adapter or their voyager quad interface bare drive dock. SuperDuper will make a bootable copy of your internal MacBook drive, and you will probably need to re-authenticate only a few of the more paranoid and pricier apps if any at all.

1. Connect the new drive to your USB SATA adapter/dock/whatever...
2. Use Disk Utility to partition the new drive GUID and HFS+ Extended Journaled...
3. Use Super Duper to copy your internal drive to the new one...
4. Restart from the new drive (while still docked) to make sure life is good...
5. Seven screws later your new drive will be inside your MacBook.

-- Marc

why do you have to partition it Guid and HFS+ extended??