Cloning the internal disc
Dear Pros,
I'am trying to clone an original internal harddisk with 160 GB in one of my G5 to a new one with more capacity. I tried with the disk utility (made a dmg an back to a new hd), Carbon-Copy-Cloner and Drive Genius. The result is always, that I cannot boot from the new harddisk.
What I'am doing wrong?
Thanks for your answers.
Guido
Thanks for your answer coom guy,
I will try this direct! I have never seen this option in disk utility. I only used the option to make images and by the way, the phenomena of visvible aliases is there too.
But it is strange. On my G4s (and I have had a lot of them - approximate 15) the via dmg-images cloned harddisks had always been bootable. O.k., this was IDE and now we have serial ATA. But this cannot be the reason only, or?
Thanks.
Guido
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