[G4] stuck and need to upgrade-resend, last got sent back-WOW!

[Marla]

Wow! thanks Steve, for the level of detail of your
reply. i have some further questions for
clarification, if you don't mind:

>  I am assuming that you are using OS X. 

I currently have OS 10.2.8, and apparently need a
firmware upgrade before I can upgrade my OS...

> Install the new drive inside your Mac (there should
> be room for a second hard drive), and initialize it
> with DiskUtility.

Disk Utility is separate software, I need to purchase
it, right? And is a new controller card
expensive/complicated to install?

>Then, just download CarbonCopyCloner (donation wear)
to your old drive,

can I do this download BEFORE installing the new
drive??

> yet--you may need to copy some registration
information over to the new drive).

Will my machine tell me I need specific registration
info? Or will I need to figure it out by osmosis?

Thanks a BUNCH,

Marla


--- Steve Goldstein <sng at cox.net> wrote:

> No need to overly complicate matters.  Just get a
> new drive.  Say roughly 100-160 GB (all you can see
> without adding a new controller card will be 128 GB,
> but it is hard to get drives less than about 160 GB,
> and they are cheap, in any event--maybe $50 to $75
> or so).  I am assuming that you are using OS X. 
> Install the new drive inside your Mac (there should
> be room for a second hard drive), and initialize it
> with DiskUtility.  Then, just download
> CarbonCopyCloner (donation wear) to your old drive,
> and clone the existing drive to the new drive--means
> that everything on the old drive will be on the new
> drive--be sure to select the preference to make the
> new drive bootable.  CCC fixes permissions on the
> original drive by default before the cloning even
> begins, unless you uncheck the box in its
> preferences.  Once that is done, you can forget
> about the old drive, except that some applications
> might require re-entering registration information
> in the new drive (so don't trash the old one just
> yet--you may need to copy some registration
> information over to the new drive).
> 
> --Steve
> 
> At 11:25 AM -0800 1/16/07, Marla wrote:
> >I have a G4 dual 450, with over 800MB SDRam but an
> old
> >28Gig hardrive that is beginning to show it's
> years...
> >
> >I need to upgrade my firmware and OS, desperately,
> but
> >I am caught between a rock and a hard place: I
> >recently (egad) experienced a drive error/failure
> that
> >was repaired -for the time being- by the fabulous
> one
> >and only Disk Warrior.
> >
> >The technician who supervised the repair told me
> that
> >he gives my old drive "about 2 months." So I'd like
> to
> >replace it with a new internal drive. But what
> about
> >my software? He also said that you can't always get
> >all the permissions and that my old software would
> not
> >necessarily transfer over. IS THIS TRUE?
> 
> 


 
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