Switch to new Boot Drive

OK, I have installed a new 1TB HD into my old Mac Pro, cloned my 250MB old boot drive over and slected it in System Preferences and restarted but it still seems to be running on the old drive becaus eit keeps telling me I am out of space. Mac Pro 1,1 running 10.6.8. Waht am I doing wrong???

Wow and I thought this would be easy. I am not sure what kind of clone I did and it is probably not worth trying to figure out. When I open New Boot it tells me I have 750 gb (exactly what I would expect) available but when I look at it in Disc Utility it is telling me I have 999gb available. I am also not sure what you mean by sstretching the partition pane...Ifthere is an easier way to fix this problem I would really like to find it but can't I also just erase the New Boot and clone it correctly again from the old boot which is still in Bay 1 if I have to...

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As I’ve mentioned I have Power MAC Dual G5 2,7 GHz( early 2005)
I’m doing “ erase and install” on my boot drive Caviar and starting from the scratch - Basically doing whole new setup with my music apps,sample libraries and back up.
To describe it little better - My plan is to move Caviar to second slot ( mostly will be used for I-tunes,documents,photos and maybe some back up) and purchase new boot drive.
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Now - I’ve gone through a big research and even though I have not really make up my mind about my purchase - here is what I’ve found out so far.
As a boot drive I’ve been considering following ( I’m adding my comments as well)
1) My first pick was Hitachi T7K500 320GB SATA II HD 16MB Cache -
seemed to me like a very good choice for a boot drive since it has a great random access .But after reading review in “ AMUG reviews “ Using a Hitachi T7K500 320GB with a Mac Pro I was not that sure .Apparently They don’t recommend Hitachi T7K500 for internal Mac Pro usage since it is slower without using SATA host adapter. But that is Mac Pro - I have Dual processor so it might be different?
Second choice was
2) Maxtor MaXLine III 500GB or Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500 GB
here I’m not sure -some guys don’t really recommend this brand but in bunch of online reviews I’ve read it was mentioned as a very good choice for a boot drive .
I’ve been told that this drive is too noisy and too cheap which I think is not a bad thing though.
And finally
3) Raptor 74 GB or 150 GB
Everyone knows those drives are fast
Downside is that size is not very big ( just my OS X will be around 50 GB)
plus 150 Gig won’t work natively on my G5 without host card which would be another extra expense .
Maybe one more thing to add - I have not consider neither seagate drives (since random access speed is not that great) nor pairing any of those previously mentioned drives into raid 0 configuration .
So basically that is my selection.I’m trying to pick up drive which would work natively without PCI - X card and would be reliable and fast.( Only if I would have no choice - Than I would probably buy a host card )
Also I’m not sure whether for example in the case of hitachi ( or even other brands ) would be smarter to go with bigger size - maybe 400 or 500 GB for a boot since all drives getting slower as they get filled up.
I would really appreciate if anyone can give me a feedback as far as what drive would be the best choice in my case.
Thank you very much for your time
Milan

OK - I'll try that one more time - second choice is Maxtor Maxline III 500 GB or maxtor maxline Pro 500 GB.

HT4889 Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive?

Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive? Should I use Carbon Copy or does apple have a better untility to do this?
I can't get my current system drive (OSX 10.8.3) to start on the first try. I always have to shut down and restart again to finally see the Apple logo.
Have used disc utility to repair the disc and permissions several times and that works. The next time I boot up, it works fine and I get the apple logo, but then the second time I boot up, it's back to the blank screen again and it only boots after the second try. I have tried this repair three different times now always with the same result. Works right the first try (after the repair) then from the second time on it doesn't work. I just get the white screen until I reboot a second time.
Thinking I should change drives but what's the easist and best way to move everything over to the new drive so it will boot correctly with all my data on it. This is the system drive for a Pro Tools 10HD setup. MacPro 3,1 with 16 gigs ram and OSX10.8.3 on it.
Thanks for any help!

If you have a time machine back up of your current drive you can do this
Shut down your computer, install the new drive. While the computer is off plug in the external hard drive that you have your time machine back up on. Hold Option key while the computer turnes on, let go of the option key once you get a grey screen. Shortly after you'll see a list of bootable drives, select the one that has your time machine back up on it and boot into that drive.
From there go into disk utility, format your new drive too, osx extended journaled ( I think, double check that, its been awhile since ive had to do this), hit format
Exit disk utility and then you can use time machine to copy all your exisit data to the new hhd and then your pretty much done.
There is also a program called Carbon Cloner that will do esentially the same thing however I've never uesed it.

Creating A New Boot Drive For Mac Pro Desktop

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 using Lion:
I would like to create a new and bigger boot drive but having not done this before I would appreciate any direction that would make this as painless as possible. I will continue to use Lion but am a little lost when it comes to doing this with the download process of Lion as well as transferring what has been created on the current HD in the MacPro. I have a new WD Black 2 TB SATA that I would like to use as the new boot drive. Again, thank you for the help.

Don't. Use. 2TB for system. Seriously.
Use that for data.
Get yourself a $89 Samsung 840 120GB instead along with Icy Dock $15. You will. Love it.
You don't need a large drive for the system. All you need to do is MOVE all the data and media files and every thing else, just leave the small 4GB /Users/myuseraccount/Library on the boot drive with the OS and apps. Everything else gets off loaded.
Leave your drive you ahve now as is for backup. Move data and clone the system.
Clone your system:
How to Clone a Volume
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
See also Erasing a Drive, How and Why to Partition a Drive, RAID.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-partition-your-hard-drive-on-mac-os -x-snow-.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DU.html
How to relocate system and user data to another drive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4337http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/To successfully relocate your operating system, user accounts and data from one storage device to another, meet the following conditions:
The destination storage device (SSD drive or hard drive) you are migrating to should be physically located in the same computer. Moving operating system files from one computer to another computer using software not specifically designed for that computer can cause issues due to software, hardware, and firmware version mismatches.
Always back up your storage device with Time Machine or Disk Utility before you start.
Icy Dock $15
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New boot drive - Photoshop will not launch

I recently cloned my boot drive onto an SSD, which I now use as my boot drive. Everything works fine except when I try to launch Photoshop, I get an error that says, "Could not intialize Photoshop because the disk is not available."
I have both CS6 through Creative Cloud, and CS5. Neither will launch and both give the same error message.
I tried searching for a similar problem on the forum, but I didn't see anything. If this has already been addressed somewhere, please point me in the right direction. Otherwise, any suggestions would be appreciated.
I am running Mac OS X 10.8, and I've repaired permissions several times on my new boot drive.
Thanks.

You could try resetting preferences by starting PS and immediately holding down Cmd + Option + Shift keys. You should get a reset window.
Some users get in trouble when files are moved from default settings after installation. Also, Bridge will not work if temp file is not on boot drive.
Don't know how the cloud works. Think it is installed on computer? If so if above does not work unistall and re-install might be next step.

Installing New Boot Drive ?

Sorry to double post but, had this in the wrong section.
Hello, fellow G4'ers.
Mine is G4 MDD 867 Dual CPU and has a giga 1.4 CPU upgrade, 1.75 GB RAM.
ATI 9600 Mac OS X (10.4.11). 400W PS
Still runs well enough for my purposes.. besides drives are pretty cheap these days, so why not.
I Have 3 drives total now. 2 are Internal, 1 is External (FW400).
1 - (original) Boot drive 60 gig (20 GB avail.)
2 - Maxtor 200 gig with 2 partitions,
a) 40 GB partition w/ 40 GB avail. and
b) 160 GB partition w/ 90 GB avail.
I also have a 250 gig FireWire External (bootable) drive that has a cloned, used CarbonCopyCloner,
backup of the main boot drive and still has ~ 180 GB avail.
I only want to replace the original (aging) boot drive BEFORE it goes bad.
I read somewhere here that a separate partition for the system alone, could b a good idea. can anyone confirm this for me ?
I got and installed the 2nd drive myself (Maxtor 200 GB), so I think I can do this.
I need to be sure, as to a plan of attack here (software-wise), and appreciate any input as to a good way to do this.
I'm sure there are a few ways it can be done.
My best guess's are;
1-get the new ATA drive (500 gig drives can be had for under $100) Any hot tips here ???.
(How's this sound "500GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 7200rpm 8.9ms 16MB Cache UltraDMA 100/ATA 5 HD" ?????
2-Check and be sure a good bootable backup of boot drive exists on the External drive.
3-Shut down and physically install the new drive, discard old drive, plugging it into the same place the old one was in. (I guess this is right, but not real sure about this, any jumpers to move/check ??? , ) any other possibilities here ?
Now the variables/my best guesses :
4.a ) Power On, Startup use the (C key), and boot with my Tiger Install disk, and install a fresh Tiger OSX 10.4.xxx system onto the new drive.
QUESTION; Not real sure how to get this updated to 10.4.11 yet, but I think there's a "Combo" that will bring it right up to 10.4.11, but I'll need my internet connection for that.
Perhaps boot with the clone/external and download the update file to disk and install it that way ??? Definitely need some help with this .
4.b ) I could just copy/Clone in reverse from External to the new drive (I should think a clean install would be better here as to not keep any system flaws from my existing system, including that messy stuff that the latest security updates introduced. But, this could work, right ? Perhaps not ? I think I would really like to have a New Clean system as the Original HD may be weak/flawed.
4c ) Perhaps there's a function in Disk Utility that can help with doing all this, Restore? Archive ? whatever ?
OK. That's about where I am here. I'm not really a noobey, but I just never had to do all of this and want to be sure of a good plan before I get started, and don't want to overlook anything.
Thanks very much

Good News here, just to finish up.
I Got a FW external. Cloned boot drive to it (CCC 3.1.2). Did a archive & install on the external clone with Tiger DVD, and updated it to 10.4.11 + all misc updates. Fixed permissions between all phases. Deleted previous sys folder. Rebuild & optimize w/DiskWarrior. Pull old boot drive, install new WD 320 GB, connections were all "Cable-select", no master/slave stuff. Started up with tiger DVD and formated the seen new drive. Booted from external, cloned clean, archived/new SYS to new boot drive. Done.
Only a few small probs. with prefs. here and there, but all back and running fast & smooth and now I even have a regular backup plan to the external.

New boot drive and a clean install of Lion

I have a Mac Pro with multiple internal hard drives. My Lightroom catalogs are on one disk, my actual photos are on another, and my OS is on a 3rd. I recently decided to upgrade my 7200rpm SATA boot drive to SSD. In the process, I also did a clean install of Lion. None of my data was moved, as it was all on separate internal drives.
I have the new OS installed, and I reinstalled Lightroom 3. I should also mention that whenever I import files from CF cards (using a card reader), I import as DNG. I only shoot RAW.
When I launch Lightroom and look at my previous work, or the shoot that I was working on prior to the upgrade, I notice that (at least) the following is missing: flags, ratings, edits. I think I can live without the flags and ratings (though I would love to get them back), but I thought the whole idea of DNG was to store the sidecar "edits" file with the RAW file in one package. Shouldn't I be able to see my crops, treatments, localized brush edits, etc.?
What am I doing wrong and what can I do to remedy the situation?
Thanks very much in advance.

You need the original catalog file. You should have copied this over to your new instillation and then just opened it, rather than reimporting files.
If, as you seem to be saying, your catalog is not on the OS disk then all you need to do is open this after reinstalling LR, rather than creating a new catalog as you seem to have done. Just find the original catalog and open it from LR, or double click on it from Finder when LR is closed.
If you have not kept a copy of the catalog file, then you could use your most recent back up of the catalog, hopefully you made regular backups using LR's backup system and did this to a separate drive.
However if you have re imported the files then any edits that have been actually saved to the files will be read by LR. You do have to actually write the edits to the files, either by choosing to do this automatically in LR's preferences or by clicking on the update metadata in LR, otherwise these edits are not written to the files (or as xmp files when using propitiatory file types. If you didn't write the changes to file then LR has nothing to read.

New boot drive question

I'm looking to replace my 250G boot drive with a 1T; Can I use SuperDuper or CCC to move the OS and applications to a FW drive & boot from that? I'm confused about starting up after replacing the boot drive. Thanks for any confidence you can give me

Hi. You can clone your current boot drive to an external FireWire drive and then boot from it - and then install the new internal drive, and clone the system from the FW drive back to the new internal drive. Or install a new system on the internal, if required.
You should make sure that any other FireWire devices are disconnected during cloning. You should also run Disk Utility > Verify Disk and Repair Permissions on the internal before you clone.
You should check that the boot from the FireWire works a few times.
You can select the boot drive before you Shutdown in System Preferences > Startup Disc - or boot holding down the Option(alt) key and select the Startup drive from those offered. Patience may be required, as it's a bit slow to find the boot drives sometimes.
Good Luck.

How does TM react to a new boot drive?

I've out grown my boot drive and will be replacing it tomorrow. I'm going to just clone the new drive from my existing. After I do this and get my Mac up and running again will TM recognize the cloned drive as data it already has backed up or will it attempt to back up the entire cloned drive?

BobP1776 posted some very thorough instructions in this thread about how to get Time Machine to recognize its backups after a full restore. They should work if you copy from a clone rather than doing a Time Machine restore. It would also be a good idea to give the new drive the same name as the old one.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1307738

Can I just swap in my new boot drive?

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Any way to register QTPro-6 after installing new boot drive

My start up drive went bad. I received a new one from apple and have been re-installing my software but can't seem to reinstall-QTPro-6 which was included with the FCProHD production suite.
doug

I've re-installed QTPro-6. All is well......................
doug

Switching boot drive to new internal drive??

I just got a new 150 gb internal drive installed and I've been trying to install the restore software to use it for the new boot drive instead of my old 80 gb. Disk Utility will recognize it but the install software process just shows the old drive. I've tried several times, starting up with the restore disk. Disk Utility will not format it either, all options remain greyed out. The new drive is a ST3160811AS, the profiler says SMART status is Not Supported if that is relevant.
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That's odd...the link doesn't work but I can do a search and access the popst from there...so I copied and pasted the text from the post
"Some of you might know that Seagate 7200.9 series SATA drives have had a problem when installed inside a PowerMac G5 because the G5s are not compatible with the Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) feature on those drives.
Apparently, Seagate has been paying close attention to this problem, because they have recently begun shipping some of these drives with SSC disabled.
The clue to whether a 7200.9 drive has SSC disabled is in the part number. If the part number has a suffix that is NOT -301, the drive has SSC disabled, which means that you can install it in a G5 without first installing it in a PC and running Seagate's MS-DOS utility to disable the feature.
For example a 400GB drive with SSC disabled would be ST3400633AS-303.
In case you don't know, SSC is a feature intended to reduce electronic emissions (EMI) in large multi-drive installations. These drives meet EMI standards for a single drive without SSC enabled.
FYI. FWIW."
Do a search on 7200.9, SSC and you'll see several threads which may help you solve the problem....I'm afraid it sounds like the old SSC issue.

Starting up problems from an old boot drive in a new mac pro

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Hard to follow your steps and thoughts. Maybe re-read and cut it into actual steps.
Always clone a system so you have a bootable backup image.
Make sure your software and drivers are compatible.
2010s boot into 64-bit kernel mode by default.
Apple still sells 2009s also on Specials page.
Your old Mac Pro wouldn't come with 10.6 unless it came out in Sept 2009 or later.
Is Parallels current? Is it attached to Windows partition or VM only? does it care that it is running on new hardware? that usually is a non-starter.
New Mac is also a good time to do thorough spring house cleaning. Clean install all the applications and drivers.
Pull your old drive out. The only use for it would be to run Setup Assistant to import your home account prefs.
The "new" refurbished hard drive is still in same state it was in when you got it?
Sleep issue. you may have external devices or 3rd party drivers or bad cable somewhere.
Wireless?
At this point I doubt I can read between the lines.
+Break it into compartments and subjects instead of hash stew for us!+

Can I just move the boot drive from my iMac to new Quad G5?

I've "upgraded" from a 1.8 GHz 20" iMac (Rev. A) with 2 GB RAM to a 2.7 GHz Quad G5 with 5 GB RAM and I'm not seeing the performance jump I expected for simple stuff like logging in after system restart (and the start up applications), launching applications, etc. The system profiler reports 4 CPUs, 5 GB RAM, etc. Memory intensive operations seem quicker but I haven't performed any real benchmarks and have a new drive in the iMac. The system just doesn't "feel" faster for basic stuff. I realize these may not be CPU intensive tasks but still expected to see a little more livelier system.
I moved the iMac drive to bay B of the Quad and set it as the boot drive. Are there any folders, caches, etc. that need to be cleared?
The new boot drive (my iMac's old drive) is a 300 GB Seagate ST3300831AS. (The original iMac drive developed a problem and was replaced with this drive a couple of months ago. I noticed an improvement as this drive is a little faster than the stock Maxtor.)
The original Quad drive is a 500 GB Hitachi HDS725050KLA360.
Specs of the two drives seem to be virtually identical as far as I can tell. (Actually I think the Seagate has .5 ms faster seek.)
I'm thinking the issue is that the lack of performance gain I'm seeing is disk I/O and that the iMac wasn't lacking in power for basic stuff so I will only see the performance gain with applications that can take advantage of the additional CPUs and/or GPU. Still, I expected the system to feel a little faster.
I just tried Virtual PC and it didn't seem to start up much faster and I definately expected to see a big improvement with this application.
Any ideas?

That's correct, I moved the iMac drive to the second bay in the new Quad G5.
I wasn't sure if any combination of events would fix this. I didn't think there were any caches or anything else I needed to clear but just posted here to be sure.
The iMac was 10.4.3 and current with all updates. I didn't really think anything was missing but posted here to be sure. My understanding of Mac OS X is such that I was pretty sure that everything the Quad needed was already on the iMac drive. Not that this is necessarily any more reliable, but I asked at the Apple store and they said there was no problem with me moving the drive to the Quad and setting it as the startup volume.
A few people have told me that it's probably OK, but the official method is to use the migration assistant. So today I installed from the Power Mac OS X discs (10.4.2) to the Hitachi drive which I erased, then ran the migration assistant, then software update, then cloned the Hitachi drive back to the Seagate. I think the performace of the two drives is nearly identical (Seagate ST3300831AS, Hitachi HDS725050KLA360) and wanted the smaller (300 GB) Seagate drive to be my main drive.
I've been using Macs for only about a year and have found the experience interesting. On the plus side the performance is fairly consistant and I don't experience progressive system slowdown over a period of months. And of course there are the system update, viruses, etc. issues which are better. On the negative side basic stuff feels faster on a Windows system. I'll try Photoshop which I have no doubt will be faster on the Quad than the iMac and probably faster than a PC, too. But Safari or Firefox don't feel as fast as IE on a new Windows PC. Just my observation. I invested a lot in this Quad and expected to feel a significant speed boost even if it's only for launching applications and displaying web pages. (I have Comcast's highest speed Internet service.)

Installing a new boot HD

My 120gb HD is full (boot drive). Powermac G4 1.42 duel with both HD bays 120gb HD's. I want to put a 250gb HD as my new boot disk.
The guy down at the apple store sure made this sound easy. You just take the new 250gb HD and put it in place of the old boot drive, have the tiger boot disk in the CD, and walla...put new install of tiger on the new boot disk.
Right.
Computer does do anything. BONG. dark screen, the CD never starts up. So I reinstall the old HD and BONG...grey screen of death with multiple languages telling me I'm screwed. I go through that a few times and finally get my computer back before I go into a full blown panic.
Before I go tampering around again, can anyone with better sense than the apple store saleman (pleasant fella) tell me more practical steps on installing a new boot drive?
I did go under the preferences panel and saw that I can force a restart on the tiger disk, but doesnt' really help me as that is an OS dependent function.
If memory serves correctly, I think many years ago I could go into a BIOS or something similar on a pc and force the computer to take a certain order of starting, which disk to search for first. Does the mac have a similar deal where I can force the board to start looking at the CD first?
Ideas are appreciated...thanks.

Hi,
First, how many hard drive bays do you have inside your tower? My G4 MDD tower has 4 bays. With the case open and the CPU on your right, two drive bays are on the left, under the CDROM/DVD drives. The other 2 bays are on the right and back at little, directly in front of the CPU heatsink.
The existing hard drive you currently boot up from should be on the right bay, in the backmost slot. It's jumper should be set to "Master".
You can put in the 250 Gb hard drive in the front slot of the same bay the existing 120 Gb hard drive is in. Make sure the 250 Gb hard drive has it's jumper set to "Slave".
You should then be able to boot up as normal and see your existing 120 Gb hard drive and the new 250 Gb hard drive (as an unformatted hard drive). To see the new hard drive you'll need to use the DiskUtility app in Applications/Utilities.
To install a new OS on the new hard drive, you can boot up from the CDROM containing the new OS (say Tiger). Before you begin the process of installing the new OS, click on the menu item "Installer" and you can get access to "DiskUtility". A copy of DiskUtility is also on the OS Install CD. Use the CDROM's copy of "DiskUtility" to format and parition the new hard drive, prior to doing the install of the new OS.
You should be able to go thru this install of a new OS with the new hard in a "Slave" jumper config, or with only the new drive in the tower, with the new drive in a "Master" jumper config.
To see how to set the jumpers on your new drive, do a Goggle search with the model of the hard drive and the name of the company. That should bring up at least one page from a support section of the company's website that will contain either Word docs or pdf's or online pages showing w/pics how to set the jumpers for Master or Slave settings.
Once you are done, in the case where you installed the new OS on the new drive, while the old drive was still in the tower, you'll need to shutdown the machine. Then switch the "Master" and "Slave" settings of the jumpers on the 2 hard drives. Then reboot and you should see both hard drives. You can then copy files over to the new drive and re-distribute the Users files as needed.
Ed

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