9.2 files on a 2TB exteranal HDD

[Dimarco]

yeah, I'm updating a few macs in 9.2 to 10.5; but i need to back up all the files onto a 2tb HDD before i reformat. The mac(booted from the 10.5 CD) is having trouble moving the files to the 2TB HDD, it is taking way to long; at this rate it would take a week or two to do this to all the macs here. Any help on speeding this up would be great; or just another way of doing this would be cool too. Thanks -DIM

 

[aaronw1986]

yeah, I'm updating a few macs in 9.2 to 10.5; but i need to back up all the files onto a 2tb HDD before i reformat. The mac(booted from the 10.5 CD) is having trouble moving the files to the 2TB HDD, it is taking way to long; at this rate it would take a week or two to do this to all the macs here. Any help on speeding this up would be great; or just another way of doing this would be cool too. Thanks -DIM

How much space do the files take up? Have you looked into transferring them over a network. Can they really run 10.5 anyway? I wouldn't think a comp that ran 9.2 would have the spec requirements for 10.5

 

[Dimarco]

4 HDD, ranges from 20-120Gigs on each. it is having trouble partitioning, these aren't used to a drive with more than 256Gigs(because they weren't around when they came out).

Edit: the External HDD doesn't connect to the Network.