Thank you Dave. I'm awash in a new MacBook Pro 17", and it is quite a different experience. The suggestions on this list will help transition my iBook over to "the kid". If I run into any trouble, you know I'll come crying to the list. Thanks again, Mark On Dec 4, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Wegener Media wrote: > Disk Utility in Panther & Tiger (10.3 & 10.4) has the "Make Image" > option which handles this flawlessly. > > In addition you can use Disk Utility to duplicate your old disk to > another drive. > > Carbon Copy Cloner has had issues with Tiger, which is why we don't > recommend it. > > > > Dave > > Wegener Media > > > > > > >On Dec 2, 2006, at 8:53 PM, gooddog at interlync.com wrote: > > > >>Howard and Charles; > >> > >>Thank you both for your excellent advice and help. It went > >>flawlessly. A few apps needed to be reinstalled, but that was > >>mainly because, as far as I can tell, they were PPC only. > >> > >>Do either of you know how to create a disk image of the old hard > >>drive? I recall there was a way to have a condensed version of your > >>entire disk as back-up. > >> > >>Thanks again. > >> > >>Mark > > > >I've never had the occasion to do that. I'm thinking that Carbon > >Copy Cloner would allow you to make a duplicate and then zip it or > >something to compress it? > > > >Charles (charlesp at ksu.edu) > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/ibook/attachments/20061206/596c3e00/attachment-0001.html