[G4] 2002 Quicksilver - adding second hard drive

[Ruby Appling]

RE; I have  tried a full system copy (back-up) of my entire hardrive 
useing carbon copy cloner, to an external firewire drive, it looked OK 
until I tried to use it, then it was reload my internal HD from all the 
indvidual OS disks, what a pain and disappointment,I am just now 
getting back where I was,, OSX 10.2 jag G4 800 PB I would like to find 
something better than CCC. I mean one that works


On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 08:00  PM, Mel wrote:

> Mike,
> Since Unix uses many invisible files and hard file links (think 
> aliases that must be in the correct file path), you can't just copy an 
> OS installation like you used to be able to with OS 9. I haven't 
> personally used CC Cloner, but everyone swears by it. Can you describe 
> your problems a little more so we can figure out what is going wrong? 
> What kind of library problems are you having?
> You can do a fresh install to the new drive (many people would 
> recommend that), create a user and copy your user library and 
> documents into it, then run the permissions repair from Disk Utility. 
> That should preserve most of your settings and a fresh install is 
> reported to improve speed over an upgraded installation.
> Mel
>