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Resolved Cloning a PPC Drive in an Intel Mac

A.Goldberg

A.Goldberg

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A good idea? Long story short I need to clone a PPC drive onto another drive that will be used in a PPC.

Can I clone the drive in my Mac Pro or would I be better off/safer doing it in my G5?

Thanks
 
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You should be fine in the Mac Pro-just make sure you partition the new drive as APM and not GUID.

Carbon Copy Cloner will probably give you warnings about the cloned drive not being bootable, but you can "okay" through them and it should work fine
 
I've done so much cloning over the past few days to get my HP ready to sell... Anyway, I've done this with a few hard drives. If you want you could always TDM into the target computer and copy over your hard drive or use transfer assistant in setup to clone your disk.
 
Cool guys thanks!

Since when do you have to buy CCC? That tells you the last time I cloned a Hard Drive!

I know most people use CCC or SuperDuper. Any reason not to just use Disk Utility?
 
The older versions(which I don't think will run on your MacPro) supposedly have a 30 day "time bomb" but I've never actually seen it work. I think it's fallen far enough into the realm of abandonware that Bombich doesn't really care anymore.

In any case, as far as I know the current version still has a 30-day free trial.
 
bunnspecial said:
The older versions(which I don't think will run on your MacPro) supposedly have a 30 day "time bomb" but I've never actually seen it work. I think it's fallen far enough into the realm of abandonware that Bombich doesn't really care anymore.

In any case, as far as I know the current version still has a 30-day free trial.
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Oh nice. Thanks for the info. Any reason to use CCC over Disk Utility?
 
Just use disk utility and click restore...drag the drive you want to clone to "source" and drive you want to clone it to "destination" ....done!
 
By chance I was digging around on external hard drive I used on my old 15" MacBook Pro (~4-6 years ago). I actually have a full copy of CCC 3.4 so I'll be using that. I hate trial software. Weird how things like that happen.

Thanks for the advice guys.
 
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