[X-HW] Transferring OS X to a new hard drive

[James S Jones]

Carbon Copy Cloner may also work for you--and it's donation ware.  
<http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html>

Three things to consider:

	- CRT iMacs do not have USB 2.0 Hi-Speed, so your transfer speeds  
will be slow.

	- Opening up a CRT iMac and replacing a drive is a chore. You will  
want to get the Apple service PDF before you try it.

	- Before cloning the drive, I'd suggest you repair permissions, do  
any pending system updates, and repair permissions again.

	- You can find the system version in "About This Mac" in the Apple  
menu. 10.4 versions are "Tiger"; 10.3 is "Panther".



On Jan 31, 2007, at 9:44 PM, Paul Greene wrote:

> I don't need to boot from the external drive. If I can transfer the  
> image over to the external drive, swap the drives, and the new  
> drive will be bootable, I'll be good to go.
>
> Btw, in Finder | Help, it refers to "Tiger" and not "Panther".  
> Tiger is a newer version than Panther, right?
>
> Paul