Cloning hdd and reinstall help

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frown888

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Hi,
I have a macbook pro which came with a 250GB hdd. I have bought a 500GB HDD and cloned to 250gb to the 500gb, but the cloning didn't work as i hoped it too. What i want to know is how to i prepare the HDD for a complete reinstall of Snow leopard? Do i have to format the drive first or what?

Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks
 
Mac recovery

Install the OS to the new drive then hook up the old drive via usb or what ever means you have availale firewire etc. The operating system will recognize it as mac drive and prompt you to transfer the data. It should get you very close to your old configuration and migrate all your data.

Cheers
 
Hi, thanks for your reply.
What i meant was that i want to format the 500gb that im using at the moment, and reinstall mac snow leopard on it. How do i format the hdd on mac?
 
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