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

[Paul Greene]

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

Jens Selvig wrote:
> 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