[G4] New hard drive, how to transfer files?

[David Crandon]

Erase and reformat your new drive.

Then download Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) from versiontracker. It will do 
what you want. It is the standard for this. All the instructions are in 
the Help menu, not in a seperate manual.

David Crandon


On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 08:30  PM, Dave Lee wrote:

> 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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