Backing up the old hard disk.
Howdy guys...
I have an old B&W rev2.2 puter that I hardly use anymore, but have I have everything I have done since 8.6 on it ( I currently have the original 6gig running 10.2.8 and an added Maxtor 120gig running both 8.6 and 9).
What I want to do is put in a new 120gig (seagate) which I have already installed formatted and partitioned.
I would like to copy everything to the new 120gig in the two partitions and remove the original two for other purposes.
Can I do this using the disc copy utility to make a dmg of each and install those on the new drive, or will this not be able to boot?
I have the OS discs around somewhere, but I thought it would be much easier to use a DMG (if applicable)rather than running a clean install and then reinstalling all the various software and transfering all the files I have gathered over the years by hand.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
El Jefe
Did you use Disk Utility to format/partition the new drive, with the "Install Mac OS 9 Drivers" option selected? Did you create three partitions on the new drive, to install each OS version on its own partition? To copy OS 10.2.8 from the 6 GB drive to a partition on the new one, you should use a utility like CarbonCopyCloner 2.3 or SuperDuper. Either will copy all files, including the invisible ones, to create a clone of your existing OS X installation. Unfortunately, you'll need to find a download link for SuperDuper 1.5.5 for OS 10.2.8. Versions 2.x require Panther minimally. As for your OS 8.6 and OS 9 installations, you can drag/copy each folder from the old drive to the desired partition on the new one. I prefer to start with the System folder, followed by the Applications and Utilities folders, and then the Documents folder last.
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