Need some advice on additional hard drive

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Tue Dec 10 14:28:49 PST 2002


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>Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 21:51:42 -0500
>Subject: [G4] Need some advice on additional hard drive
>From: Gregory  Cortelyou <chefgreg at mac.com>
>Message-ID: <BA1AC0EE.12E2%chefgreg at mac.com>
>
>I have a G4/350 that I recently added a new IBM 60 gig hard drive to. I
>installed it in the empty space above the original 10 gig drive which I was
>intending to just leave in place as a backup device. I did a fresh install
>of 9.2 and 10.1 (since upgraded to 10.2.2) on separate partitions on the new
>drive. I successfully copied all the applications and data from the old
>drive to the new one via a simple drag and drop copy. I am having no
>problems really but I notice that the old drive (which still has all it's
>original data on it) cranks up when I access certain applications,
>particularly MS Entourage, but many others. It appears that the applications
>I copied over were simply aliased to the new drive but remain on the old
>one. Is this true? If so, can I permanently copy everything over somehow,
>switch the positions of the drives, erase the original and use it for backup
>as I originally intended? I am sure there is a simple solution. I do have
>all the liscensed programs on CD, but would prefer not to have to reinstall
>everything if I don't have to. This is a luxury problem. I can live with it
>this way, but would like to have everything on one drive rather than feeling
>like I am always working with 2 active drives. The bottom drive spot is
>probably meant for the "master" drive, would just switching them be enough?
>I hope this is clear. Thanks.
>Greg
>



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