[G4] Need some advice on additional hard drive

[Richard Smykla]

Greg,

Your explanation for the old drive 'cranking up' is spot on. Not to 
mention, you've failed to copy many invisible files over to the new 
drive. Boot from the old drive, and use Carbon Copy Cloner (available 
at http://www.bombich.com/ )to make a perfect copy onto the new 
drive. Then test the new one and wipe the old. Then pay the author 
what you deem the software's worth. This is an essential piece of 
software, IMHO. Hope this helps. . .

Rick

>I have a G4/350 that I recently added a new IBM 60 gig hard drive to. I
>installed it in the empty space above the original 10 gig drive which I was
>intending to just leave in place as a backup device. I did a fresh install
>of 9.2 and 10.1 (since upgraded to 10.2.2) on separate partitions on the new
>drive. I successfully copied all the applications and data from the old
>drive to the new one via a simple drag and drop copy. I am having no
>problems really but I notice that the old drive (which still has all it's
>original data on it) cranks up when I access certain applications,
>particularly MS Entourage, but many others. It appears that the applications
>I copied over were simply aliased to the new drive but remain on the old
>one. Is this true? If so, can I permanently copy everything over somehow,
>switch the positions of the drives, erase the original and use it for backup
>as I originally intended? I am sure there is a simple solution. I do have
>all the liscensed programs on CD, but would prefer not to have to reinstall
>everything if I don't have to. This is a luxury problem. I can live with it
>this way, but would like to have everything on one drive rather than feeling
>like I am always working with 2 active drives. The bottom drive spot is
>probably meant for the "master" drive, would just switching them be enough?
>I hope this is clear. Thanks.
>Greg
>
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