Quick question on new Harddrive and CCC/ Super Duper

[Smurfed]

Hey all,

I was thinking of upgrading my internal 200gb Hard drive, with a 500gb model and wanted to know If i buy a external closure to put the old 200gb in, and place the new one inside my mbp, do I HAVE to clone that drive with the above mention programs to access the data or can i access it from the external minus the clone data into the new drive.

Simple version: I want the new internal drive clean with freshly installed Leopard, and external kept with the old data, can external still be accessed sans cloning?

Thanks.

 

[sickmacdoc]

Yes- when a drive is cloned with CCC/SD it just copies it as regular files, so there is nothing really special about the files. They can be accessed just like files on any disk- no need for any special apps or anything.