Im having trouble understanding how to work this. I read the instructions up and down and it does not indicated anything what so ever. I just plugged in my second ATA hard drive into my mac g5(dual 2.5) I now want to copy everything on my original harddrive onto the harddrive I just put in. HOW? Everyone keeps telling put just click copy everything, and Im aware of that. But whhere do I copy it to? It says "New Disk Image or Choose Disk Image" I cant find my other hard drive in either of those options. My source disk is my original hard drive but I do not know how to target my new drive. Help PLease !
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Carbon Copy Cloner Trouble
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Is that other new HDD even formatted?
Can you see it in Finder or Disk Utility (the software to use to format the new HDD)?
Can you see it in Finder or Disk Utility (the software to use to format the new HDD)?
Close CCC
Open up Disk Utility
Select the new drive from the menu on the left. On the right side, click on the 'Restore' tab. Drag old drive from left onto the 'Source' area on the right, and the drag the new drive from the left to the 'destination' are on the right. Hit restore
Presto.
Open up Disk Utility
Select the new drive from the menu on the left. On the right side, click on the 'Restore' tab. Drag old drive from left onto the 'Source' area on the right, and the drag the new drive from the left to the 'destination' are on the right. Hit restore
Presto.
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Ok so how exactly would I do it. I did what you wrote, but when I try to drag over the old hard drive to the new one in disk utility nothing happens. I got the old hard onto the source, but when I drag the new one there it doesn't work, because underneath the new one, it doesn't say "HD". It just says "931.5GB WDC. The old one says " 157.2 GB Maxtor w/ HD underneath. Do i have to make a copy of the old hard drive in CCC and then use that as an image in disk utility or what? Or do i need to format the new one first before i do so, and if so how do it without the disk?
Look at this guide (five pages) to properly use Disk Utility in order to format that new HDD, so you can either use it via Disk Utility's restore function or CCC.
http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat.htm
http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat.htm