Switching HDs

[stoid]

I am upgrading the HD of an 733Mhz Quicksilver G4 from the original 40GB 5400RPM to a 80GB 7200RPM drive in hopes of giving my family a boost in speed and in particular to help GarageBand performance for my little brother. The 40GB drive has about 29GB of data on it and I need to clone that data onto the newer drive. I can run the tower off of my laptop's HD for the switch, but do not have enough room to store a complete image file on my laptop. I can put the image file on the second drive, but since the cloning process erases the drive, I couldn't do anything with it. I have an impossible Towers of Hanoi problem with two pegs and two discs. Is there a way to clone the original drive immediately onto the second drive without having to first create an image? Thanks for the help.

 

[OutThere]

I think that you might want to look into Carbon Copy Cloner...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

It will make all your problems melt away...

 

[stoid]

Well, I've tried the Carbon Copy Cloner thingy, and it seemed to work great. However, when I try to start the computer from the cloned drive it stops on "Waiting for Apple File System..." and continues no further. Is there some setting I should check?

 

[stoid]

DUH!!!

The Journaled File System of Panther strikes again!!

I told CCC to reformat the second drive before copying and everything went smoothly, although now it won't let me change to the custom icons on the drives?? What's with that?

 

[IJ Reilly]

Try repairing permissions on the new drive.