Copying Bootable Drive C: to Second Hard drive

In Win98se, I could take "Partition Magic 8" and simply copy c: to the
next drive, shut down, unplug the original drive, and set the jumper on
the new (bigger) drive to Master, and I'd have a bootable bigger drive.
This is not working on XP. I did the same thing, but the new drive will
not boot. (No system files error). I have tried doing this several
times, once I ended up with a dual boot creation, which was a major pain
in the ass to remove. I'm guessing that this type of operation is not
possible with XP, and I'll have to completely reinstall XP to the new
drive from scratch.
Anyone know any other way to do this?

Partition Magic is out of data.
Try this pelase: Aomei Backupper
Cloning(Copying) partition or backuping system partition then restore is OK
http://www.backup-utility.com/features/
Besides Copying, "Migrate os to hd" is also ok.
Try this: http://www.disk-partition.com/help/migrate-system-wizard.html

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Hello, I have a G5 PPC. I want to install a copy of Entourage on the second hard drive. Can I do that or will it create problems for the processor?

Hi everyone
I had a very old intel iMac from late 2006 which was dying now dead. I just managed to copy the Entourage folder onto an external hard drive before the iMac gave up the ghost. But I could not open the Entourage copy on the G5 PPC. each time i tried to do so the PPC copy of Entourage would open instead.I have emails on the PPC copy and do not want to lose them. I was wondering if it would be possible to install another copy of Entourage on the second hard drive? I was hoping that by doing that I could access the information from the iMac which has been copied to an external hard drive.
Any help would be very very welcome.

I don't think MS lets you install Entourage outside of an active system folder. However, you can install a fresh copy of Entourage on the G5's hard drive (if you have Office 2008 or lower), then use Entrouge's Import command to move the data files from the old hard drive.
We're done this several times as we've upgraded either computers or Entourage.
However, I think that, before you act, you should also ask in Microsoft's user forums here:
Office for Mac forums
They are excellent and often an employee of their Macintosh unit will assist in answering.

How do I use my second hard drive for storage, not back up?

Hi, I bought a second hard drive to store files (not back-up for my system), but when I moved some files over to drive two and then deleted the same files from drive one, they also deleted from the 2nd drive! Fortunately I could reverse the process and there was no loss, but what now? How do I disconnect the two so I can use the second as storage?
Thanks and happy Easter for those of you who celebrate it. Kate (Porter)

Whilst I normally drag files around, a copy and paste still should have created a replica on the destination drive.
That the second is mounted internally makes my describing it as an external drive inaccurate, but wouldn't cause the problem.
So that still leaves the scant possibility that the original source is itself an alias.
Was the copy and paste done in a Finder window or was it done via some other application's window?
I look forward to an update on this unusual event.

Adding and configuring a second hard drive in a Power Mac G4

I am using a Power Mac G4 with the original 20GB hard drive and running OS 9.2.2.
I would like to upgrade to 10.4 (Tiger) installing it on a 80 GB Seagate Ultra/ATA 100 which I need to install as a second hard drive.
This is where my problem arises. From what I have read I cannot install OS 10 on a drive configured as SLAVE. On top of this Apple article ID 106728 has a note not to “change your Apple –installed disc drive to ATA ID-1 (slave) when adding other ATA devices.”
Is this article correct or am I misunderstanding it? I was hoping I could just install the new drive on top of the original and switch the configurations of the drives making my original drive the SLAVE and the new drive MASTER and just install OS X on the new 80GB drive.
Or can I put the new drive in the position of my original drive configure it as MASTER and put my original 20GB drive above it and configure it as slave?
I am hoping someone can let me know if these configurations will work.
Another question is: If I switch the position of my original drive will I lose access to the data on it?
I would like to keep the OS systems on separate drives because I need to continue to run my old software and Heidelberg scanner (SCSI, running on LinoColor Elite 5.1 for which updated drivers are not available). This will not be possible in classic. I want OS X on the larger drive as I will be loading updated software eventually and it will become my main OS system.
Power Mac G4 450GH, 768mb ram (AGP graphics ) Mac OS X (10.4) Currently running 9.2 and will be upgrading to OS 10.4

Hi, Thelisa -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
Is this article correct or am I misunderstanding it?
Yes, to both - the article is correct, and yes, you seem to be misunderstanding it.
In the context of the article, "Disc drive" does not mean a hard drive. Earlier in the article it states -
Solution
"Disc drive" refers to CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, Combo drives, SuperDrives.
The reason is that on most (if not all) G4s, an optical drive must be jumpered as Master in order for it to be a bootable drive. So, if an optical drive has been jumpered as Slave, it can not then be used to boot from the OSX Install disk.
You will need to place the drive to be jumpered as Slave in the top position of the bracket (the drive sled), and the one jumpered as Master in the bottom position of the sled.
The reason for this is the location of the connectors on the IDE ribbon cable (the data cable) - the one jumpered as Master needs to be attached to the end connector of the cable, and the one jumpered as Slave to the middle connector of the cable.
Because of the physical limits of the cable itself, the one jumpered as Slave must be on top, else the connectors won't reach to the proper drive.
Which drive is jumpered as which is your choice, but the one jumpered as Slave must be on top.
If I switch the position of my original drive will I lose access to the data on it?
No.
The designation of Master or Slave is, for the most part, simply to allow the Mac to have a unique physical address for each drive, so it can tell one from the other (this is separate from the pathname addressing that the OS uses). Re-jumpering a drive nor changing its physical location will not affect its contents nor their usability.
One result that may be important sometime is when the machine in question is set up as the Target machine in a firewire Target Disk Mode arrangement - only the drive jumpered as Master will be visible on the Host machine.
Article #58583 - Firewire Target Disk Mode

Using the second hard drive in my G5

I bought my Mac about 14 months ago with twin 250GB hard drives fitted. I wanted to use the second hard drive to store my CD collection through itunes.
I have tried to install itunes on the second hard drive but the software installer says it has to go on the startup volume. I have also tried copying my itunes folder and pasting it to the second hard drive as a backup but it won't allow this either. It says that the drive cannot be modified.
How do I use the second hard drive as intended? I upgraded to Tiger so do I need to install that on the second hard drive?
Thank you.

Hi Mike;
I have a 250 GB and a 160 GB hard drive in my Quad. A long time ago when I had much smaller drives, I did move Users to another disk because I was running out of space on my system drive. One of the problems I ran into with this was when my second drive with Users on it didn't start quickly enough for OS X. OS X created a new Users for me with nothing in it. It was a royal pain getting my system pointed back to the Users on the second drive.
What I do now is leave Users where OS X installs. I now move just my project files, music, photos and web pages. I find that this is largest part of Users. It is also the part of Users that I am the most concerned about. With all of my project files on another drive, the system is able to access data from both drives very quickly. It also makes backup simpler.
Allan

Trouble copying data fies from DVD to hard Drive

I just installed a second hard drive in my G5, and also 4 gigs of memory. Everything is working fine except my superdrive. I tried copying video files from a DVD to my hard drive and ran into problems.
the files would begin cpying and then about half way through it would slow down the transfer rate. It was just shy of nothing at all.
I can watch a DVD with no problem, and can burn cds. I haven't tried a DVD yet.
Any Ideas.
The drive is about a year old

I was recently backing up some large video files to a friend's external 500GB drive (via USB 2, very painful), and was unable to use it formatted as FAT32 due to the fact that file sizes are only limited to something like 2GB or less. Had to partition the drive as Mac OS extended for the video portion (since many of the files were far larger than 2GB), and the rest of the disk as FAT32 so they could at least use some of its capacity with their wintel notebook. Frustrating, but hey that is Windows for you...
G5 dual 2.3GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.5GB RAM, 2nd 250GB SATA internal HD

Backing up Playlist (Or the Entire Music Library) on a Second Hard Drive

I know there are many solutions for this subject online, but neither suits my needs. I have already read many tutorials on how to backup your entire music library using your ipod as a hard drive, but I have a different matter. I have all my music stored on my second hard drive (witch has a capacity 80 Gigabytes), the size of the music folder is about 49 Gigabytes; my ipod has a capacity of 30 Gigabytes, and my first drive (where Windows runs has a capacity of 20 Gigabytes.) On my current library I have all my playlists the way I like them. My problem is that I constantly need to re-install Windows for testing matters, so I would like to keep all my playlists, my ratings, and my play counts when I reinstall windows. I can not use my ipod as a hard drive, because all my music won’t fit. I have also read that it is necessary to have the option (Keep my Itunes music folder organized), but I am not able to do that also, because of the lack of space on my 1st hard drive. What would be my best option to backup my library?
Thanks in advance,
Dirk Breeuwer
[email protected]

Dirk Breeuwer,
It sounds like you may have your songs stored on the external hard drive, and linked to the library on the internal hard drive. Is that correct?
You can move your iTunes Library folder to the external drive, and then tell iTunes to keep the library organized. This article discusses creating a different library, and how to switch between them. (This is a feature that was added as part of iTunes 7)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304447
The initial configuration of that option may take a while, but once setup would be the easiest way to accomplish keeping the library intact through reinstall of Windows with the songs stored on a second hard drive.
Personally I would try this if you have sufficient space on the second hard drive free for all the music:
1. Copy the iTunes folder from My Documents to the external hard drive
2. Hold down shift when launching iTunes as directed in the article above
3. Select that iTunes folder on the external hard drive.
4. If you music doesn't have !'s next to it when you try to play songs you know are on the external hard drive, then go to Advanced->Consolidate library.
5. Consolidating library will copy all the songs into the iTunes folder on the external hard drive, as long as the links were not broke by copying the library to the external hard drive.
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

Will bootable copy of drive recreate problems with overheating?

Hi, all, first let me say I am outside of my comfort range with my skills so some of these questions may seem pretty dumb. So, sorry for that.
Through my own posts and reading the posts of others, it is clear I have to take in a MacBook Pro 17" Core Duo Intel to get it fixed (almost out of warranty so I have to move on it). It spins and gets hot with the lid closed, freezes when opened and requires restart a couple of times a day, sometimes has a long buzz on force restart. I probably mangled the transfer of files from an iBook, though using migration assistant - may have transferred incompatible settings somehow. I got an external drive from OWC and am ready to download SuperDuper! at the recommendation of many of you experts. We run Leopard on the Pro 17" and will need to use a MacBook Pro 15" Core Duo Intel running Tiger as the "keyboard and screen" from the bootable drive I plan to create on the external drive. (BTW, I have never done this before) Would we expect any of the power management/sleep issues to be recreated? Obviously if it is a hardware issue, I would expect NOT to see it, but is there a chance it is software related and would therefore show up on the clone? Thanks.

Yes it does sound like you need to send in your MBP soon before the warranty expires. Be sure to do that. My niece did that recently, and got a very fast turnaround. She sent it off at 6:00 PM on a Tuesday, and it was back by Thursday morning.
It is a little difficult to say what is going on from your description, and I'm not entirely clear on what you are doing.
Super Duper (which I use) will make an exact copy of your hard drive on the new external drive. If you have corrupted software or something like that, it will be the same on the external.
To make the clone, you connect the new drive to the 17" MBP and when it has mounted, just launch Super Duper and specify the source and target volumes and Super Duper will do the rest. You will then have an exact bootable copy of your drive on the external drive.
You will then be able to boot the 17" MBP from the clone. I don't know if you can boot the 15" from it or not. If the builds of the two machines are different, you may not be able to. However, you should still be able to mount the clone on the 15" MBP and access the data.
I have read of many problems in migrating data from a Power PC platform to an Intel Machine using Migration Assistant, so you could have some problems with that. Here is Kappy's Guide for doing this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
For power management and sleep issues, have you tried resetting the SMC?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411?viewlocale=en_US
It probably won't fix all the problems on your 17", but it could fix some of them.
Have you tried running the extended version of the Apple Hardware test on the 17"? It might give an error code saying what is wrong with it. If so, let Apple know when you send it in.
The real question is whether or not the 15" MBP will boot from the clone. I don't know if it will if the machine builds are very different. If it does boot, there is still a possibility that it may not run perfectly due to the difference in build.
The real value of the clone is to preserve all your data before you send the machine in. You may even want to wipe the old drive of any sensitive data before sending it off. If the old drive is replaced under warranty, you will not get it back. Even if it is not replaced, often the drive is erased and the OS reinstalled in the troubleshooting process, so there is no counting on getting back your data unless you make a backup, which is exactly what you plan to do.
When you get the 17" MBP back, you can use Super Duper again to clone everything back from the external drive to the internal drive.
I'm not sure if this answers your question or not. Please post back if you need further clarification on anything.
Good luck!

Can I configure my HP dv7-4165dx to boot from the second hard drive?

I have had an HP dv7-4165dx for about 20 months now. About 10 months in, the original hard drive burned up because of the placement directly under the GPU (bottom left corner, left of the touchpad and below the keys), which gets hot enough on the top side to make your hand uncomfortable. The symptoms included blue screens, troubles on startups, and finally a system message on boot that said the drive was damaged. Since it was under warrantee, I carried it to Best Buy to have the drive replaced, which took nearly 2.5 months.
Now, at about 20 months, I am facing the beginning of the exact same symptoms. I noticed that there was a second hard drive bay, away from the GPU, so I purchased the wire needed to use that bay. Now it tells me that there is no bootable disc installed (the hard disk test, in system diagnostics, knows it is there) . I am sure I can swap the drive back to the original bay and be fine but that puts me out $75 for the kit from HP (yeah, I know I may have to eat that if there is no way), but far more importantly it means that I will have another burned out drive (losing everything, again) within a month or two.
I have looked but I can't seem to find any way to tell it boot from that drive. Is there a way, or am I just out of look due to a poor design? It's been a great machine, except for this issue.
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Unfortunately there is no option to be able to boot from the HDD in the 2nd bay in any of the dv7 series - sorry for the bad news.
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Problems installing second hard drive in HP Pavilion M7-1015dx laptop.

I just bought a new HP Pavilion M7-1015dx. I have successfully installed an SSD drive as the primary hard drive and now I want to use the 1tb hard drive that the computer came with as data and install it in the second hard drive bay. I have a cable that I used from my old HP DV7 when I had a second hard drive but I am having issues with my M7-1015dx laptop.
When I plug the sata cable into the second connector on the laptop and attach my hard drive (I have tried several hard drives) and go to power the laptop on, the power light just blinks a few times. Now I know there is something wrong for I just purchased the laptop two days ago... I got the idea to try the cable that I used to plug into the second connect to check and see if I plugged it into the first and I got the same issue, power light blinking. So I am wondering if it is the cable... is this possible? Are there different rated sata cables? I also tried the cable the came with my new laptop to make sure that it just wasn't the second port - I tried plugging it in to the second port with a hard drive attached and the laptop this time turned on but asked for a bootable disk because it requires boot disk to be in the 1st hard drive bay connection which I knew. I just want to give all the information so that I can get this fixed.
Please help me

Hey Brother-Brad,
I'm sorry you're running into issues installing a second hard drive. Your issue may not be the cable. Do you have a working hard drive installed currently with Window on it?
If so,
1. In Windows, Click the Start button.
2. Type 'hard disk'
3. Click on 'Create and format hard disk partitions' (aka Disk Management)
4. Look at Disk 0 listed at the bottom in the middle. Does it say Basic or Dynamic?
5. If it says Basic, right-click it and select Convert to Dynamic.
Hard drives must be set as Dynamic for dual hard drives to be recognized.
Let me know the results when you get a chance

Migrating documents to second Hard Drive

I bought a new internal hard drive and would like to keep the original drive as a start up drive with all the applications, and migrate all my documents to the new or second hard drive.
At first I thought it would be as simple as copying all the document folders over to the new hard drive. But, then I started wondering about folder structure and the user structure.
So, I'm wondering if there is a protocol for what I want to do? Maybe a link to instructions?
Thanks
mp
I'm running OSX 10.5.8 (Mac Pro)

Not to worry. Just drag & drop the folders onto the new drive. Just as a precaution, select a few files with different apps & open the files to ensure they open. Then you can drag the corresponding folders on your old drive to the Trash. Shouldn't be a problem.
Do you have another HD, either internal or external, that you use to backup all your files? You should.
 Cheers, Tom

SSD as second hard drive, now CPU fan isn't working?

Warranty issues aside, I recently installed an OWC 115GB Mercury EXTREME Pro SSD as a second hard drive in my 27/i5 Mid 2010 2.8GHz iMac. I did not change any other configuration setting and the original hard drive is configured as shipped. After shutting everything up the internal fan(s) spin extremely loud (especially on the left/cpu side as you are facing the screen). I installed istat pro and while the temperatures look good to me, it says the CPU fan is not running. I've been searching online for days and can't find anyone else that has the same problem. I've taken the iMac apart twice since the problem started and can't find anything broken, connected upside down, or plugged into the wrong spot. Has anyone by chance run into this before? Thanks for the help! I posted a copy of the istat readings below.

Hey,
I heard something about this problem with 2009/2010 imacs: putting in harddrives by your self causes problems with the fan (spinning at full speed all the time), because they are using special harddrives that have a heat sensor built in. without this built in heatsensor, the system doesnt know the temperature of the hardware and runs the fan full throttle just to be sure it doesnt get to hot.
i only have a german source for this though: http://www.macnews.de/mac/imac-2011-festplatte-lasst-sich-dank-proprietarer-appl e-firmware-nicht-austauschen-173448
According to that source there are two ways to fix the problem: eather you use a harddrive that carries a built in heat sensor, or you put in an externel heatsensor.
aaah: just found an english source:
http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-im acs
this should be your issue. i hope i could help!

Satellite Pro A120 - Second hard drive on secondary IDE channel

Hello
I have a Satellite Pro A120 xp sp3.
I've been trying to get it to recognise a 2nd hard drive on the secondary ide channel but it won't. Cd drive has been removed and replaced with one of these, the with the pata to sata interface.
[http://newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_27&produc ts_id=245]
The second hard drive is a seagate sata 500 GB drive. Drive is spinning and recieving power but not showing up in storage management or device manager.
In the Bio's (uptodate) it shows me this but won't let me edit it.
Drives I/O
Built in HDD = serial ATA port 0
CD rom = Secondary ide (170H - IRQ 15)
To me the hardware is capable of supporting two HDD's as long as you remove cd drive but it seems like the bio's is locking me out of deselecting CD rom on the second IDE channel.
Please could some one point me in the right direction to resolve this.
Thanks
Zander

Thanks for the help.
Ok I followed what you said and this is what happens.
Uninstalled CD drive in device manager.
boot to bios with out 2nd hard drive in the slot. Bios shows no secondary IDE channel or hard drive
As soon as I push in the 2nd hard drive caddy and boot it says CD error, doesn't show in windows or device manager. Bios shows CD drive again. Also the CD drive is reinstalled in the device manager.
Tried it with original HDD with operating system on it in the 2nd hard drive bay and it won't boot, looks for bootable device but can't read it.
Why does it only see the cd drive! Annoying.
Any more ideas?

[Solved] Setting up a second hard drive

Hello,
I have arch set up on /dev/sda.
I was going to use my second hard drive /dev/sdb as a place to back up my music and stuff. I set it up as an ext4 but for some reason I am not allowed to write to it... I can copy and paste to my /home from a usb stick but I can not paste anything into my second hard drive. How would I go about enabling read/write on this drive? I have tried to search around for answers but all the searches have yielded dual boot and or using two HD's to install arch.
Sorry if this question is too simple, just started using arch and this is my first post.
let me know if you need any info from me.
Thank you!
Last edited by Sherlock19 (2014-02-22 23:41:51)

Hi,
You could change the ownership to your user, given that you already mounted the drive in for example /mnt/some-folder. Then you can do a sudo chown <your-username> /mnt/some-folder.
Or you could chgrp the mount directory to some group you want to give access, and don't forget chown g+w for the directory, so users from the group can write to it.

Pavilon 500-319na can I install a second hard drive

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Operating System: Windows 8.1
I bought an HP Pavilion 500 - 319na desktop in summer and want to install a 2nd hard drive. There are spare connections on the board and the power cable to the internal hard drive has a spare connection. From what I read it needs to be SATA 3. I have read conflicting advice on this board. Some say yes, some say no.
OK, there seems to be only one bay (a poor oversight by HP) but provided I find a way of securing another drive is there any reason why it should not work.
From what I read it should be max 2Tb's.
I want a definitive answer please!
Win 8.1 64 bit.
This is the hard drive I plan to buy. The spec says XP, Vista, Win 7, but am I right in thinking it should work with win 8.1
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/components-upgrades/internal-hard-drives/3-5-inch-hard-drives/toshiba-...
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As I said to you in the other cross posting (desktop hardware):
You can obtain 3.5" hard drive cage from here for $11 shipped. Granted it has a 120mm fan and space for 4 drives, but for the price, you can mod/cut all you want.
Now your other issue/question: You will want a SataIII 6GB/sec drive 2TB, 7200 RPM.
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