[CUBE] A new hard drive

Sean Terrill a10t2 at mac.com
Fri Jun 25 13:19:26 PDT 2004


Quoth deschwab at descom-usa.com (deschwab at descom-usa.com) at 25/06/2004 4:16
PM:

> Ken -- facing a similar task, with a WDC 80 GB drive.  I found potential
> software at  http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html  in a Google search, and
> it sounds tailor made, especially as the author has different version for
> different vintage OS X, and because it is free ware/donation ware.
> 
> Carbon Copy Cloner
> 
> Has anyone else any experience with it?  I've not tried it yet, I have to go
> out and buy a Firewire external drive enclosure before I put Carbon Copy
> Cloner to use.

CCC is the de facto solution for this - Apple integrated it into Panther
(10.3) in Disk Utility. There's no need to buy a FW enclosure, just connect
the second hard drive to the optical drive connector and leave the Cube open
while you do the transfer.

Sean Terrill
a10t2 at mac.com
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