Help cloning drive for SSD replacement on iMac G3

[juan99999]

My HDD drive is dying on one of my G3's (10.3.9) so I bought an SSD drive with an SATA to IDE adapter to replace. Also bought a USB to SATA cable.
The SSD was correctly initialized when I connected it to the G3 via disk utility (USB).
My understanding is that I need CCC 2.3 to clone but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone have it?
I'd go ahead and install from CD, but my CD player doesn't seem to work either (on both iMacs G3)
HELP!!!!

 

[ruslan120]

Pretty sure Disk Utility can clone. Not sure how though, google might help with details

 

[z970]

Pretty sure Disk Utility can clone. Not sure how though, google might help with details

That would be its volume restoration feature.

You just select a volume, click on the Restore tab, choose a source volume, pick a destination volume, and away it goes, automatic blessing and all...

 

[sawpits]

My HDD drive is dying on one of my G3's (10.3.9) so I bought an SSD drive with an SATA to IDE adapter to replace. Also bought a USB to SATA cable.
The SSD was correctly initialized when I connected it to the G3 via disk utility (USB).
My understanding is that I need CCC 2.3 to clone but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone have it?
I'd go ahead and install from CD, but my CD player doesn't seem to work either (on both iMacs G3)
HELP!!!!

CCC 3.47 is for Tiger or Leopard: https://bombich.com/download

 

[juan99999]

Ok, so a little progress...

On my other iMac I inserted the SSD via USB and it asked me to initialize- Disk Utility actually worked on this which leads me to suspect the other HDD install is corrupt.

I tried CCC 3.47 but the DMG seemed incompatible.

So using CCC 2.3 (for 10.3) which I found on an archive I managed to clone the HDD but it doesn't give an option to make bootable (which later version of CCC did from memory- last time I used it was a few years ago).

So I inserted the SSD via the interface and played with the MASTER/slave switches but can not get it to boot.

Any ideas how I can tell if it's the SSD or the interface that's not working?

This is the adapter I am using
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-To-ID...492923?hash=item23c4e9823b:g:V3wAAOSwXudbIPnI

I am using a 120GB Kingston SSD

Thanks!

 

[z970]

Ok, so a little progress...

On my other iMac I inserted the SSD via USB and it asked me to initialize- Disk Utility actually worked on this which leads me to suspect the other HDD install is corrupt.

I tried CCC 3.47 but the DMG seemed incompatible.

So using CCC 2.3 (for 10.3) which I found on an archive I managed to clone the HDD but it doesn't give an option to make bootable (which later version of CCC did from memory- last time I used it was a few years ago).

So I inserted the SSD via the interface and played with the MASTER/slave switches but can not get it to boot.

Any ideas how I can tell if it's the SSD or the interface that's not working?

This is the adapter I am using
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-To-ID...492923?hash=item23c4e9823b:g:V3wAAOSwXudbIPnI

I am using a 120GB Kingston SSD

Thanks!

Try this one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/StarTech-c...for-HDD-SSD-ODD/232371052657?_trkparms=ispr=1

I and many others can confirm this works with PPC machines.

 

[bobesch]

You may try SuperDuper! for drive-cloning too ...
https://shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

 

[Amethyst1]

You may try SuperDuper! for drive-cloning too ...
https://shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

https://shirt-pocket.com/downloads/SuperDuper!2.1.4.dmg is for Panther.

 

[juan99999]

Try this one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/StarTech-c...for-HDD-SSD-ODD/232371052657?_trkparms=ispr=1

I and many others can confirm this works with PPC machines.

I ordered one from Amazon and got it- still no luck. Do you leave the pin settings to MASTER? Any other tricks? Can you boot off of USB?
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https://shirt-pocket.com/downloads/SuperDuper!2.1.4.dmg is for Panther.

Thanks, tried cloning with super duper but it still won't boot with either card.

Any other tricks? Can I boot off of USB to test if SSD works? I tried selecting the cloned drive when connected to USB but when I try to restart with it, pressing the restart confirmation doesn't do anything.

Can I install OS from USB stick?

 

[z970]

I ordered one from Amazon and got it- still no luck. Do you leave the pin settings to MASTER? Any other tricks? Can you boot off of USB?

Can I install OS from USB stick?

I removed all jumpers from its pins and it works fine.

No, not really. What you see is basically what you get.

That depends on the machine. Models 2000 and newer should be OK for booting off USB.

Yeah. Just restore the .dmg to the USB volume with Disk Utility, then boot into Open Firmware. Then, you can go about inputting the boot commands.

 

[juan99999]

Ok, so I created a bootable USB of Tiger and booted by pressing option key.

At first I couldn't select the SSD as the target for the OS install as it was incorrectly initialized. Initial automatic initialization did not configure the SSD correctly; so I reformatted in disk utility. Looks like it's installing now.

Seems to be working fine with my cheap controller (I think I paid $3 for it on eBay) in case anyone wants to try that.