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best way to swap hard drives on a G5?
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I have a Powermac G5 with 2 160GB HDs. The original drive has the OS and all programs and files and the second I use strictly as a Scratch Disk for FCE.
Needing more space for home video I bought 2 400GB SATA drives. To swap out the smaller drives for the larger drives I was going to do the following:
Remove the 160 Scratch Disk and install one 400. Use the disk utility to copy the remaining 160 to the new 400. So now I can take out that 160 and move the new 400 with the OS.
Now I can put the 160 Scratch Disk and copy that to the new 400. Remove the 160 and put in the other 400. Move the video files to the new 400 Scratch Disk.
Any reason why the above won't work? When I start FCE will it still find the files on the new disk?
Thanks!
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Should work. I suggest using Carbon Copy Cloner rather than Disk Utility, especially for the boot drive, to ensure the bootability (if that's a word) is maintained.
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Thanks for the confirmation! I'll CC a try.
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Gave CC a shot and it was a disaster. Spent most of my Saturday trying to get it to clone properly before giving up. That includes several hours on their trouble shooting site looking for answers.
Can I use Disk Utility to create a disk image and copy it to the new drive?
Any other recommended software?
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Originally Posted by 5by5 
Gave CC a shot and it was a disaster. Spent most of my Saturday trying to get it to clone properly before giving up. That includes several hours on their trouble shooting site looking for answers.
Can I use Disk Utility to create a disk image and copy it to the new drive?
Any other recommended software?
Eek. I am planning to do the same thing soon and was going to use CCC.
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Originally Posted by 5by5
Gave CC a shot and it was a disaster. Spent most of my Saturday trying to get it to clone properly before giving up. That includes several hours on their trouble shooting site looking for answers.
Can I use Disk Utility to create a disk image and copy it to the new drive?
Any other recommended software?
Strange. The only time I've had CCC fail was trying to copy to a drive on a bad controller card.
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