[G4] Swapping hard drives one mirrored-doors to another

[John Wilson]

It'll probably work fine. I'd run a utility (Disk Utility) to repair 
permissions ASAP and it probably wouldn't hurt to run "fsck -y" on 
startup by holding down the command+s keys. John

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 07:33  PM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> I have an original "wind-tunnel" dual 1 GHz and an early 2003 (800 MHz
> Firewire) dual 1.25 GHz G4. I installed all my wife's stuff on the dual
> 1.25 GHz machine (she's coming from a 15" flat-screen iMac), and she 
> can't
> stand the noise. This IS the 2003 model, not the "Wind Tunnel" box. 
> I've
> finally installed the fan/power supply swap kit in the latter, and it's
> DEFINITELY quieter. My wife says she won't use the dual 1.25 GHz 
> machine
> because of the noise, so I'm considering taking the hard drive(s) from 
> my
> 1 GHz machine and swapping them for the single drive in her 1.25 GHz
> machine. I'm assuming that there aren't differences between the two
> machines that would make the OS on one not boot or run on the other, 
> and
> vice versa. (Both have 10.2.8 with all updates current).
>
> Is there any reason this shouldn't work?