Copy a HD?

[smada]

I just got a new Seagate Barracuda HD for christmas and im going to replace my old 60 GB Maxtor drive with it. Is there anyway that I can make an exact copy of my old hard drive on the new one, just with 60 GB of extra space?

 

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says..... Carbon Copy Cloner ....oh yeah!

 

[smada]

duff-man to the rescue again! thankyou thankyou thankyou

 

[Westside guy]

I gotta chime in. CCC is really handy. I used it to back up my home directory onto my iPod *and* to make my iPod bootable. It's slow, but kinda cool in a geeky way to be able to boot off your iPod. Since my music doesn't come close to filling up my 20GB iPod, it's not costing me any functionality.

It can actually be useful if you're one of these people who needs to repartition your disk in order to install Linux or some other OS.

 

[smada]

Woo it worked like a charm! copying some 40 GB of data took a while, but it did it. now i have an almost completely silent computer with plenty of space. the barracudas are apparently the quietest hard drives in the world.

 

[Horrortaxi]

If you have Panther you can do it in Disk Utility.

 

[Plissken]

and do you know why you can do it with disk utility now?

Because Apple smartly hired Mike Bombich, the creator of my savior program Carbon Copy Cloner.