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Severed Hand of Skywalker · May 4, 2005, 02:11 PM

Today I bought a new 250 GIG S-ATA drive to put in my G5 with the 160GIG that came with it.

I see now that the new drive is much more silent so I would like to have that as my main boot drive.

I want to perfectly clone EVERYTHING (even all those invisible files that OSX loves to hide) over to the new drive, switch positions and then boot up from the new one as if nothing happened.

What is the best app to do this with (must work with 10.4).

Thanks

Eug Wanker · May 4, 2005, 02:46 PM

SuperDuper!

Carbon Copy Cloner doesn't work with Tiger yet apparently.

Make sure you make backups of everything first of course.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · May 4, 2005, 02:50 PM

I'm starting to think that I might want to just install 10.4 fresh on the new drive after and move stuff over by hand. I'll have to think about it but thanks.

Phil Sherry · May 4, 2005, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

I'm starting to think that I might want to just install 10.4 fresh on the new drive after and move stuff over by hand. I'll have to think about it but thanks.

Clean Install + sorting through old files you don't really need = Good (from time to time)

Severed Hand of Skywalker · May 4, 2005, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Phil Sherry

Clean Install + sorting through old files you don't really need = Good (from time to time)

Ya it is more the apps I am worried about. Installing Quark again is a real pain.

Simon · May 5, 2005, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

I want to perfectly clone EVERYTHING (even all those invisible files that OSX loves to hide) over to the new drive, switch positions and then boot up from the new one as if nothing happened.

What is the best app to do this with (must work with 10.4).

Hands down the absolutely best and easiest app to do this is Apple Software Restore which is a part of DiskUtility in Panther and Tiger. Just open DiskUtility, select the source partition, click on restore, select the target disk, and boom. Done. It's an identical copy. Bootable, etc. The works. And it's fast.

Randman · May 5, 2005, 12:46 AM

Simon, your sig has gotten way out of control. A couple of lines over the limit, isn't it?

SHoS, the migration assistant can be used at any time under Tiger. CCC is also very good but not Tiger-patible yet.

Simon · May 5, 2005, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by Randman

Simon, your sig has gotten way out of control. A couple of lines over the limit, isn't it?

I see four lines.

Looks like it's time for you to get a monitor with more width than 640 pixels width.

j/k

Randman · May 5, 2005, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by Simon

I see four lines.

Looks like it's time for you to get a monitor with more width than 640 pixels width.

Yeah, these PowerBook 17s aren't what they used to be. Need a PB19.

That said, maybe I need to redo my screen bookmarklets since going over to Tiger.

Simon · May 5, 2005, 01:07 AM

The alternative to my sig would be this:

Randman · May 5, 2005, 01:10 AM

Need to pop that sucker over to the hamburger thread.

Simon · May 5, 2005, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Randman

Need to pop that sucker over to the hamburger thread.

On my way...