[CUBE] what's the drill again? New HD...

[Steve Houlton]

yep, you could Clone the hard drive.

there is a beautiful program called Carbon Copy Cloner.
do a search on version tracker.

at work we cloned 74 machines with this program.  No problems other 
than human error

steve

>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.
>
>Thanks
>Matthew
>
>
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