[G4] novice questions for external drive

[Wayne Wilkin]

Just another quick note. I had a friend of mine that purchased a 
firewire porche drive. Couldn't format the drive with any type of X 
utility including disk utility. For the heck of it I had him try OS9's 
disk utility and it formated fine. After that he was able to reformat 
the drive with X's disk utility, go figure.

On Jan 13, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Philip J Robar wrote:

>
> On Jan 13, 2005, at 1:07 AM, hec wrote:
>
>> i have a 867 dp mdd using os 10.3.7 and just got a maxtor 120gb 
>> external drive. ...
>> do i need to format the drive first?
>
> Most likely yes, as most external drives come formated for Windows.
>
>> if so, what is the best method? disk utility does not seem to have 
>> that function.
>
> Disk Utility does have this functionality.
>
> 1) Open Disk Utility.
> 2) Select the topmost entry for your drive in the left-hand column.
> 3) Click on the Partition tab and divvy up your drive as you choose.
> 4) Click on the Partition button in the lower right-hand corner.
>
>
>> a little while ago members of the list were discussing difficulties 
>> of cloning
>> the existing os onto another drive and have that drive boot up.
>
> Carbon Clone Copier (http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html) turns 
> this into a trivial task.
>
>
>> after the formatting and getting the os on and working what is the 
>> best way to
>> transfer my files, applications etc (about 14gb)?
>
> Unfortunately Apple's Migration tool only comes with new Macs. So if 
> you don't clone your drive you'll have to manually move (or reinstall) 
> your data and apps.
>
> Phil
>
>
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