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Ryan Heid · Nov 24, 2004, 04:27 PM

Just bought an 80GB internal IDE hard drive for my Power Mac G4/400. Currently, I have a 10 GB and a 6 GB drive in there. I want to replace the 10 with the 80 and the 6 with the 10. What's the best way to go about doing this? I have no backup drive and the 10 is full. Any suggestions?

reader50 · Nov 24, 2004, 05:37 PM

Move the 6 to the Zip bay. Jumper as Slave. Install the 80 and the 10 in whichever order you wish, in the normal ATA brackets. Jumper them as Master and Slave. It doesn't matter which is which.

Boot up, format, partition, install, copy as needed. When you are booting from the 80 and have everything removed from the 6, shut down and remove it from the Zip bay.

Or pull it's power connector and leave it as an unpowered backup drive. Power it up once a month for an easy document backup, then disconnect again. Your system will be quieter with fewer drives powered up.

Ryan Heid · Nov 24, 2004, 11:56 PM

OK, thanks for the advice. Only thing is, now the 10 GB is read-only for some reason. How do I change that?

reader50 · Nov 25, 2004, 01:18 PM

Diskwarrior is your friend.