Question: How can I move my OSX Lion installation from my 500GB HDD, to my new 250GB Solid State HDD?
Re-installing OSX Lion is not an option.
Answer: there are a few solutions but the 2 most usefull to me are these :
for both solutions you’ll need an SATA 2 usb enclosure or something like that
you can use an app like carbon copy cloner to make a copy on the new ssd and then just replace it.
or you can boot from a OS X dvd and use disk utility to clone the drive
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.
When Disk Utility opens, you’ll want to select your source. This is the hard drive you want to clone . After you have a source, select the Destination. This is the ssd you want to save the backup image to.
Click Restore and you’ll end up with a perfect copy of your hard drive.
Replace the drive with the SSD and your good to go