[X Newbies] Switcher - hard drive

[James S Jones]

No one has mentioned the freeware Carbon Copy Cloner in this thread?

<http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html>

This works, assuming there are no drastic hardware changes in the 
process (such as cloning a G3 AIO drive for use in a fully tricked out 
G5 2X2).

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 11:28  AM, Simon Briggs wrote:

>>> I want to upgrade HDrive on my old G4/400 but do not want to 
>>> reinstall.
>>> Is there a way of copying the entire system from drive 1 to drive 2?
>>
>> Why re-install? Install the new drive and also keep the old one.
>
> Because there is only 300Mb left on the 10Gig, OSX wants to store 
> certain things in certain places on the OS disk, especially if sharing 
> over the home network.
> My wife is a WINDOWS 'switcher' and I do not want to be in the 
> position of having to 'eat crow' if I goof, the new 80Gig has plenty 
> of room and the 10 gig is about the size of her iPod.... swap o rama.
>
> So the question still stands