Transfering OS to new hard drive

[Macarc]

I'm about to add a new hard drive in my Quicksilver Powermac G4. I want to use this new drive as my boot drive, but I don't want to reinstall everything. What is the best (easiest) way to move all the data (including the OS) from the old drive to the new? I will keep this old drive in the computer for back up.

Thanks

 

[yellow]

SuperDuper!

Free. (If you pay for it, there's a nice feature called a Smart Update or something like that, which effectively becomes a "backup" solution (a clone solution) that only updates changed data on the backup, rather than erasing and re-cloning the whole drive.)
Clones your old disk to the new one.
Reboot.
Done.

 

[Macarc]

Thanks,

That sounds like a good solution. I'll give it a try

 

[dr. shdw]

Carbon Copy Cloner.

 

[aibo]

Carbon Copy Cloner.

always works great for me

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Another option is booting up off of the OS X install DVD, run disk utility and use the restore function. I've always been one for doing a clone when the source drive (assuming it's the OS drive) is not booted up.

 

[Loa]

Carbon Copy Cloner.

Another vote for CCC.

It can clone and is a very good back-up solution.

It is also free.

Loa

 

[Erendiox]

All three of these solutions do pretty much the same thing. I've heard good things about CCC, though have never used it myself. Superduper gets my personal recommendation and it has a very easy to use interface. If you know how to use Disk Utility, I wouldn't hesitate to use it either.

 

[sboerup]

I prefer SuperDuper! It seems much faster than CCC, no ads, but both work well.

 

[dr. shdw]

I prefer SuperDuper! It seems much faster than CCC, no ads, but both work well.

How much faster? Can you benchmark it? And the ads don't really bother me..