New Hard Drive Upgrade

[elhefe]

I have a G5 (1.6GHz) and have a new hard drive. What I want to do, is "Ghost" the old onto the new, and make the new drive the main OS drive and the old drive a data drive. I would rather not have to install Mac OS X on the new drive, but would rather "image" it from the old drive. Is there a way to do so and how?

Thanks...

 

[grapes911]

Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper will both do this. You can search this forum or google for more info.

 

[alexstein]

There are several application that can do this task. Two come to mind right now. You can search version tracker for :

1. super duper

2. carbon copy cloner

I use super duper and it works like a charm never used carbon copy but a lots of people here use it.

 

[alexstein]

got beat again. oh well

 

[SmurfBoxMasta]

Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper will both do this. You can search this forum or google for more info.

Ghost, bost, trost....Nortonspeak for peecee crap app.......
forget it NOW.....
before it comes to haunt you

use the apps listed already. On Macs, it's called "cloning"

 

[elhefe]

yep that did it!

Thanks, Carbon copy clone did the job...

 

[p0intblank]

I was just about to create a similar thread actually, but why not just post it in here? I'm in a similar situation, but mine is a USB external disk (Western Digital 160 GB). I literally only have about 4 GB of free space on my main drive (see sig for specs) and need to clear up some space. I would like to clone this drive onto my new external drive, but I also want to use it as my boot drive. But is that possible with USB? I read that it is with FireWire, so I'm not sure. If I can't boot from it, that's okay. As long as I can get all my music/photos/etc. files onto the other drive, which is as easy as dragging and dropping, correct?

Thanks for the help and happy holidays!

 

[grapes911]

You cannot boot via USB. You can still clone the drive to USB for a full backup, but it will not be bootable.