[G4] Re: Carbon Copy Cloner

[Tony Gamble]

I just used CCC last night to clone a G3 iBook 40GB to a G4 iBook  
60GB and everything went smashingly well.  Took a while, yes, but a  
very simple process with very successful end results. :)

Tony

On 5-Sep-06, at 9:03 AM, Richard M. Kriss wrote:

> Nate,
>
> Why are you messing with an image file?  I used CCC for a long time  
> and
> never fooled around with an image file.  The steps I used that  
> always worked
> was to first erase or partition the target drive and make it  
> bootable. Let
> CCC do its thing and you will have a clone that should boot.
>
> The only issue with CCC is it does not support incremental backup  
> and takes
> a long time to clone anything.
>
> Dick
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:48:15 +0000
>> From: nagable at comcast.net
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> I just did a successful clone of MY 40 GB hard drive to a 200 GB  
>> hard drive
>> over the weekend.  It works fine.  Here are the steps I used:
>>
>> First, make a disk image of the 40GB hard drive onto the new  
>> drive. (But why
>> did you only get a 60GB drive?)
>>
>> Next, expand the .dmg file--it will appear onto the desktop.
>>
>> Then clone the expanded image onto the new drive.  Be sure the CCC  
>> preferences
>> are set to "make bootable".
>>
>> I tried cloning directly from the 40GB (my startup disk) to the  
>> new drive, but
>> it didn't work.
>>
>> What concerns me is that you may not have enough room on the 60GB  
>> disk for the
>> disk image and the clone.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Nate
>
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