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Peter753
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Feb 7, 2003, 12:00 AM
 
I just got a new second 80 Gig Seagate hard drive for my G4 tower. I was wondering if there was a way i could move all my data to it from my old 30 gig that came with it. Is it as simple as dragging all the files from one to the other or is there some utility I have to run?
     
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Feb 7, 2003, 10:52 AM
 
do you want use the 80 as your new boot drive? are you in X?

if so, you just can't drag stuff to the new one. check out Carbon Copy Cloner


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Feb 7, 2003, 10:56 AM
 
Yes I do want to use the 80 as the boot drive and i am in X. Thanks.
     
   
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