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Mirroring system HD onto larger internal... PLEASE READ!!!

slomo86

slomo86

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I just got a G4 450 mhz running OS 10.4.11 with 1.5 gigs of ram and a 20 gig system hard drive. Well I upgraded to 2 100 gig harddrives. So I have 220 gigs. Here is my problem...

I want to install Final Cut Pro 5 but it requires 22 gigs of space on the system hard drive alone. I am sure you see where I am going with this... Yes I want to turn one of the 100 gigs into the system hard drive BUT i don't have a OS X disc. Is it possible for me to mirror my current system hard drive onto the one of the 100 gig's??? If so how😕??? Thanks in advance!!
 
you can get it from version tracker, it's cheap and yes, it will clone a bootable disk to a new drive which will then be a bootable disk too 🙂 POOF!
 
OR, you can hold down option key while powering up and it will allow you to select the bootable disk or bootable partition.
 
ok I am new to OS X. lol sad but true. Back in high school I was really good with a mac (this was back when the G4 was the holly grail and OS X just came out) But I ran across this G4 and couldn't pass the deal up. So I need to learn it more... thanks for the help!!!!
 
+1 far Carbon copy cloner. and to boot to it just go to System Pref's, startup disk, and selevt the big one, or hold "alt" on startup
 
Hey thanks guys for the info!!! I cloned the hard drive and I am running off the bigger one as i type this!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! now to instal final cut pro!!! woot!!!!!!!! 😀
 
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