[G4] 2002 Quicksilver - adding second hard drive

Michael Oldfield amobel at reach.net
Wed Apr 2 07:33:04 PST 2003


That worked like a charm. Now up and running with the 7200 drive and 
what a difference over the original 5400! Seems like a new machine. 
Thanks for the help. By the way, am using SilverKeeper (LaCie) for 
regular daily back-up. Nice to find something to partly replace 9's 
Copy Agent.
Mike

>Since Unix uses many invisible files and hard file links you can't 
>just copy an OS installation like you used to be able to with OS 9. 
>You can do a fresh install to the new drive, 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



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