[rparke1]

my 1ghz ti pb is starting to grind almost all the time now. I dragged my harddrive icon into my external LaCie HD and everything is there. Except that it is an alias file. If and when my powerbook dies, i will be getting a new one. my question is, Should i just drag the image that i made on my external into the new pb harddrive and hope for the best, or should i just keep it on the external and get what i need and dump the rest of the old? if the first, would everything be the same as on my current pb or would there be some changes?

[skyman]

You can either use the OS X migration tool to copy everything over from your old laptop to your new laptop.

Or you can use Cardon Copy Cloner.

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

[angelmb]

I do it with SuperDuper!, all you need is this:



you get the whole hard disk cloned into your external LaCie and once you get a new internal hard disk, do it again from the external to the internal and you are done.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13803
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDup...scription.html