New Hard Drive, best way Copy system and files
Hello All,
I have a brand new harddrive that I want to put in my PB. I put the harddrive in a FW enclosure and installed OSX 10.4 from an install DVD. Looking on this forum for an idea as to how to transfer my system over to the new drive BEFORE putting it in my PB I discovered the existence of SuperDuper.
The problem is that even after searching the forums for much too long, I have yet to find a nuanced answer as to How I should proceed in getting my system copied to the new drive. Should I:
1) Forget about the bright and shiny new clean install waiting on the new drive and just reformat it and then create a clone using superduper (and the "backup all files" command) on the new drive.
1a) if I do this can I just then take the new drive out of the enclosure and put it in my PB and have it look just like my old drive except with a gajillion more bytes of space that I can put all my new music, photos and podcast on?
2) Should I use the OS I just installed on the new drive and just copy a standard set of system/preferences/data folders onto the new drive and then take it out of the enclosure and put it in my PB?
Thanks a million in advance
A follow up
1) I downloaded SuperDuper for free.
2) I put my brand new drive in a FW enclosure, with the Oxford 911 chip set.
3) I plugged I plugged in the new drive via Firewire. Then used Disk Utility to Erase and Format the new drive using OS extended Journaled.
4) I then used SuperDuper and the "Backup-All Files" option to Clone my current (old) drive onto the new drive over the FW connection.
5) Once complete (about two hours, for ~ 70GB) I restarted my computer holding down the option(alt). I selected to boot from the new Hard Drive still connected via FW.
6) Once I verified that I could boot from the new drive and that it was indeed exactly the same as my current drive, I shut down my computer and went through the process of swapping the new drive out of the FW enclosure and putting it in my PB. (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=111925) for an illustrated set of instructions on how to do this.
7) I just started up my computer and I am writing this post from my now new internal HD that is indistinguishable from the old one, only I have roughly 1 gajillion, billion, more 1's and 0's to order into files of my choosing. I am doing snow angels in 1's and 0's.
I hope this and the answers from dolbinau help the next person who want to do a really easy new Hard Drive install on their G4 Powerbook (Tibook)
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