See or youtube for tutorials on how to do that. If you have the "early 2008" MacBook Pro, the hard disk is not classified as user-replacable. If you have the "late 2008" MacBook Pro, see this PDF on how to replace the hard drive. Aside from that, it's really personal preference: A "clean slate" versus "the comfort of a familiar system". Especially the ~/Library contains a lot of application data I'm not willing to move out of reach, backup or not. While installing the new drive is simple enough (physically), Ive never installed Mac OSX on a bare drive. Im about to purchase a nice 120gb SSD for my Macbook Pro laptop. However, I prefer using a clean installation and only restoring my users. Ask Question Asked 11 years, 4 months ago. Regarding your different options for system installation: I've had only success (aside from a bad 3rd party driver) using system restoration from Time Machine backups. If you have not yet bought your SSD, you should read up on their performance on systems without TRIM support. ![]() ![]() I have never installed a blank disk before, but had to repeatedly wipe the one installed. When booting from installation disk, open Disk Utility (in the "Utilities" menu) and format the disk as HFS+ with Journaling, case-insensitive.
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