I did a) to a 40GB and it worked just fine. On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 06:54 PM, Matthew Herrebout wrote: > Got a Seagate 2MB 120GB. What's a good way to copy over data? > > a) CCC entire current drive (30GB) to 120, re-install OS X.2, update > to latest OS version? > > b) install OS X.2 clean on 120, update to latest OS version, > painstakingly copy necessary Mail, prefs, etc over? > > > The point of this post --> Is there a painless way to copy data so > that the new drive has all my users, files, preferences on it, yet has > a nice clean updated OS? I'm so-so at command line and want to avoid > Permissions Hell, Users Hell and Invisible Files Hell. > > I have an external FW case to put the new drive in.