New hard drive, how to transfer files?

[Dave Lee]

Just got a new internal 120gb drive, and I want to copy the files from the old hard
drive to the new one without having to reinstall the OS and thus losing all my
preferences.  I have a G4/466 with 1.5gb of Ram and run 10.2.6.

I have the new drive installed on top of the old one in the slave setting, and have
it all formatted and ready to go.  

So I started up with my second partition so I could copy the main system partition
over, and it tells me there are Library items that can't be read, and there are
System items that need permissions to copy, continue anyway?  (Actually two separate
messages).  So I say go ahead and when I try to startup with that partition, it
hangs on the grey apple screen and doesn't do anything!

How can I transfer my files to the new drive?  Anyone know?

Thanks!

Dave

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