Upgrading the hard drive on old Macbook Pro (and upgrading to Lion)

My old 13″ Macbook Pro’s 250GB is at it’s limit. It’s full and slow, and it is running Snow Leopard. So it was time to change it all. The old disk was a 250GB Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 with a 5400RPM rotational speed, the new, a Seagate Momentus 750GB 7200RPM beast. The Plan? 1. Get the new hard drive onto a usb case 2. Install Snow Leopard on it 3. Install Lion on the usb drive Ad 4. Check if all the applications are ok 5. copy all the data from the old drive to the new one (*) 6. Install the new …

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