The Situation: I have a g4 powerbook that konked out about a year ago. I tried linking it to a friend's Mac and his detected mine as an external drive and, once I unlinked the 2, mine worked for about a week then stopped responding again. I recently took it to a couple mac techs who told me either the OS is bad or corrupted or my hard drive has crashed. I have ordered and installed a new hard drive and put the old one in an external case. I am ordering OS 10.4(my old hard drive has 10.3 on it.)
The Question: If I am lucky it is the OS that is bad and not the hard drive. If that is the case how do I restore all my programs, Data, and settings, and get them to work, from my old hard drive to my new one? I was listing to a mac guy on a show say he would, when upgrading OS's, usually backup his drive wipe it, install the new OS and then import his old stuff and all his old settings, programs and everything still worked. But I would think that would be more than a simple copy - paste. Any help would be great.
The Question: If I am lucky it is the OS that is bad and not the hard drive. If that is the case how do I restore all my programs, Data, and settings, and get them to work, from my old hard drive to my new one? I was listing to a mac guy on a show say he would, when upgrading OS's, usually backup his drive wipe it, install the new OS and then import his old stuff and all his old settings, programs and everything still worked. But I would think that would be more than a simple copy - paste. Any help would be great.