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

[Jens Selvig]

Be careful.  The iMac won't boot from the USB drive. You may need to  
delicately figure out a stratagy for getting the files over to the  
drive you actually intend on installing in the iMac.

I assume you are running Panther which comes on CDs, and is pretty  
inexpensively purchased.

Jens


Jens Selvig
...lost in Montana...

lstnmt at bresnan.net



On Jan 31, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Thomas Noel wrote:

> SuperDuper from (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/) will make an exact  
> duplicate of the internal small drive contents to the larger  
> external drive and make it boot-able. Then you can switch the two.  
> The iMac you have can probably use up to a drive of 128 GB.
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 6:46 PM, techlists at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently inherited an iMac running OS X (one of those one piece,  
>> round back, blue iMacs). The current hard drive is rather small,  
>> around 10 gigs, slow (I'm guessing 5400 rpm), and making clicking  
>> noises (so it might be getting ready to fizzle out on me soon).
>>
>> I have a 20 gig, 7200 rpm drive that I'd like to stick in it, but  
>> don't have install CDs to re-install the OS. I have a USB external  
>> enclosure that I could stick the 20 gig drive in and plug the  
>> drive into the iMacs USB port. Is there a way to transfer the  
>> contents of the existing drive to the 20 gig drive, swap the  
>> drives, and have the new drive be bootable?
>>
>> On another related note, is there any limitations on drive size  
>> that can go into this system? i.e. could I stick in a 30 or 40 gig  
>> drive if I had one available?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Paul Greene