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i just got a new external hard drive, and I want to move EVERYTHING that's currently on my ibook G4 over to the external and use it as my main drive. Is there a free/safe/easy way to do this? Any help is appreciated.
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It is a Firewire drive, right?
Just use Disk Utility, Restore, Source is your internal drive, Destination is the new drive.
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USB... but would I do it the same way?
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also, I looked at that, would I have to do everything one at a time? I was hoping i could just transfer EVERYTHING at once..?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Yes, but that doesn't deal with the problem, the G4s can not boot from a USB drive without some really odd voodoo. And even if you can do the voodoo it is dog slow. You want Firewire. And yes, you can transfer everything at once. In fact, that is the way you want it.
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Originally Posted by iLoooveMeSomeMac 
i just got a new external hard drive, and I want to move EVERYTHING that's currently on my ibook G4 over to the external and use it as my main drive. Is there a free/safe/easy way to do this? Any help is appreciated.
Use SuperDuper for the transfer.
Use FW if you want to boot from the disk.
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Originally Posted by Timo
Use SuperDuper for the transfer.
Use FW if you want to boot from the disk.
SuperDuper is better for incrimental updates,
Free version will work for your needs or use Carbon Copy Cloner
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Why do you want to do this? Generally booting from an external drive is not a great idea.
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Originally Posted by peeb
Why do you want to do this? Generally booting from an external drive is not a great idea.
I always keep a Firewire drive clone of my PBs. If disaster strikes (accident, theft) I can use it to be up and running like nothing happened.
When I travel a carry a portable drive with a cloned copy of PB. I can even go to someone's office who has a Mac and "pretend" it's mine! I have several older PBs at home, and can boot one from external and never miss a beat!
I use SuperDuper to keep 2 portables in synch. Rotate weekly and keep one off premise. Storms, theft etc! You can never be too safe with your life(data)!
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The ability to do this is great - I read that the OP wants to regularly boot from an external drive - did I misinterpret?
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Originally Posted by peeb
The ability to do this is great - I read that the OP wants to regularly boot from an external drive - did I misinterpret?
I figured he was just using it as an alternate and as a backup.
I also have an external 250GB drive with my iphoto library so I don't use up my PBs drive......
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