Mark and the rest of you guys... I wish to thank all who offered there help - it was all very helpful. And yes I was able to solve my problems and get my hard drives switch around but not by using CCC or even SuperDuper - I used the simplest of all - I used AppleÕs own Disk Utility/Restore and it work the first time out of the bag! Rich ------------------------------------------------------------ --- Mark Taintor <markwt at mac.com> wrote: > Richard, > This wasn't exactly your question, but I recently > did this, using > SuperDuper as my backup/cloning software. I had a 40 > GB hard drive that > was nearly full, I installed a much larger > additional, internal drive > which I cloned and made my new startup drive. It > couldn't have been > simpler and worked wonderfully with the exception > that I had to fix my > items on the dock so that they'd work the way I was > used to. In > addition, some of my browsers continued to download > to my old hard > drive until I changed those settings in the > preferences. Otherwise, > very simple. > Sorry, can't help with CCC, but consider this > another testimonial for > SuperDuper. It's worth the money in my book. > Regards, > Mark > > On Monday, September 4, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Richard > Ramsowr wrote: > > > Morning All > > > > I need a straight forward answer to a simple > question > > about the use of CCC Software. > > > > I have a 40 GB hard drive serving as my bootable > drive > > and it filling up - at present itÕs about 95% > full. > > > > I want to relocate the contains of this drive to a > new > > 60 GB hard drive which has been primed and is > ready to > > go. > > > > ItÕs my understanding that using CCC , I can clone > my > > drive onto the second 60 GB hard drive and then > use > > the cloned item as my new bootable drive. Thus > > allowing me to clean and reuse my older 40 GB > drive as > > a second backup drive > > > > Am I correct in my thinking? > > > > Any help or direction would be helpful > > > > Thanks all and I trust all are having a fun and > safe > > labor Day Week! > > > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage > Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >