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Old 08-30-2009, 04:12 AM
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Copy the Boot Drive

I wants to make a copy of my boot drive for 2 reasons.

A) Backup purposes.
2) Swapping out the HD for a larger one.

I has a 60Gig in there now, and I want to replace it with a 200 Gig. Both are IDE and the 200 is in an IDE-to-USB adapter right now so I have flexability.

Tiger: G4 PowerPC Dual Core 400 Mhz w/640 MB RAM
20 Gig ATA HD all HFS+
Internal DVD
Access to Server
True Tiger

Leopard: Acer Intel Atom Dual [email protected] w/1 Gig Ram
160GB HD-133GB NTFS, 15.68GB HFS+
SD slot
No Net access
iDeneb 1.6 Lite

Compaq SR5710F [email protected] w/3 Gigs Ram
80 Gig ATA HD (NTFS - Vista)
200 Gig ATA HD (NTFS-Data)
Access to Server

Server: Compaq 1.8 Single Core Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
~2 TB online....
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Old 09-03-2009, 04:15 AM
Ali C. Ali C. is offline
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If you can have both drives installed at the same time, use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy your OS X partition from the old drive to the new one (after formatting the new one or a partition on it as HFS+ Journaled, of course). Then install a bootloader to the new drive (Chameleon's install setup, for instance, allows you to install to a drive other than the default one in use), reboot, and change boot devices to the new drive. This should have your kitty running anew.



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