Best method to upgrade hard disk.

[seren]

I just bought a new SATA 500gb Drive and intend on migrating my leopard install to this drive. I have 10.5.2 installed with MBR and EFI. Would it be best to use something along the lines of Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner? Would any of these programs clone the EFI? Thanks. My xbench scores are 2 150 and can't wait th put this drive in as im running a 250gb ATA and the drive is my bottleneck, I'm very familiar with dd but i don't think i could grow the HFS+ partition to fill the 500GB. I'm open to ideas.

[WinLinMac01]

Carbon Copy Cloner should work. May be Acronis can work but I am not sure if it is mac-compatible at the moment, haven't tried. =)

[roisoft]

open disk utility and format the new sata drive in HFS+ (GUID), click in "restore" (disk utility), put (drag&drop) the first drive (ata) into the "source" and put the second drive (sata) into the "target" apply.

When the "restore" finishes, take note of the device id (SATA drive "diskXsY")download and extract the efi pack into your desktop (ata drive) open a terminal and type

sudo -s
(password)

cd /Users/"your user"/Desktop/pc_efi_v80

diskutil unmount diskX (Sata drive)

./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY ./boot_v8

dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1

dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1
(if you get "resource busy" open diskutlity and unmount the disk)

X=Sata drive
Y=leo partition

that´s all ( change in bios the default boot hd or use the bios boot selector)

[zuz242]

i used acronis successfully.
maybe one has to fix boot / dualboot, but my image saved me many hours

[WinLinMac01]

Dual boot guide.

[smileyme]

I use CCC then boot to the Zephyroth 10.5.2 CD and install only the EFI bootloader. In my case, as I triple boot with XP and Ubuntu, I use MBR.