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Best way to Change Harddrives
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OK I've ordered a 500gb harddrive from my G5 PowerMac. I was wanting to find out the best way to move everything over to this new drive. Is it to reinstall all apps.? Or is there a secret to moving everything to this new drive. By the way I want to make this my primary startup drive.
Thanks for the help!
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If you just wish to make a full copy of your older drive's contents on to your new drive (referred to as cloning the drive), there are a number of options. The built-in method is to use the Restore function of Disk Utility (which is in the Utilities subfolder of the Applications folder). Simply open Disk Utility, click the Restore button in the top center of the window, select the source and destination and click Restore. Be aware that this method takes a number of hours, and I have heard people claim third party utilities are faster. The most popular such utilities are Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Hey Y'all,
I remember seeing a post where all you have to do is restart the machine and hold down "T" and then connect them with a firewire cable. Is this relevant?
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normdzn
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You're referring to firewire target disk mode, which allows one Mac to reboot and act like an external firewire hard drive on another Mac. If you have two Macs in the same place and want to file transfer between them, that's the way to do it.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
You're referring to firewire target disk mode, which allows one Mac to reboot and act like an external firewire hard drive on another Mac. If you have two Macs in the same place and want to file transfer between them, that's the way to do it.
Cool, yeah, that's the one. Thank Big Mac. Actually can I ask you how you can change the Harddrive's name? It does not let me click on it to change it?
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normdzn
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It should let you edit the name by clicking on the icon after it has been selected, but if not you can try selecting the icon and using Get Info (File menu). There's a name and extension field in the window - click the disclosure triangle if it is not visible.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
It should let you edit the name by clicking on the icon after it has been selected, but if not you can try selecting the icon and using Get Info (File menu). There's a name and extension field in the window - click the disclosure triangle if it is not visible.
Oh yeah, cool, I just had to switch to the Admin user account. Thanks.
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