Upgrading one of two hard drives

I've got a G5 dual 2.0Ghz with two internal hard drives: a 300Gb that's my boot drive, and a 500Gb that's a data/backup drive. The 300Gb boot drive is nearly full, so I'm planning on replacing it with a larger (750Gb) drive.
What's the best way to do this?
Should I back-up all documents from the 300Gb drive to the 500Gb drive, pull the 300Gb, replace it with the new 750 Gb drive, and install the OS, updates, and applications from scratch?
Or can I copy the entire 300Gb drive to the 500Gb drive, pull the 300Gb, then copy the entire 500Gb drive onto the new 750Gb drive...? (What would that be - a double mirror install...?)
Or is there a better way?
Thanks!

Just use SuperDuper or Disk Utility Restore to copy over and make a clone, SD does do a better job.
A WD Caviar Blue 640GB is fast and quiet making it a good boot drive and you couldn't tell the difference to 10K Raptor and just $104 - even less I hear on Newegg. The 750GB Caviar is also good.
I keep just the OS and apps on boot drive and home user account is on 2nd drive which also helps and frees up space but more important, so each drive can be accessed concurrently.
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I'm getting the "+cannot copy... file names are too long+" message, and can't determine the problem. Here are the circumstances and clues: Files were copied from an iMac G5 (10.4.11, OS Extended Journaled)to nearly new OWC Elite FW (OS Extended format) and then attempted to copy to one of 2 internal drives of the PPC G5. Got the error, even trying different ports, a FW hub, and the 800 port as well. Then tried copying to the other internal drive, designated the system drive... no problem! But now I get the error again when trying to copy them from this internal system drive to the first (data) drive. One new development just now after trying to save an open document back to this data drive from whence it came " +could not save because of a disk error.+" What do I do next? Thanks in advance.

Just use SuperDuper or Disk Utility Restore to copy over and make a clone, SD does do a better job.
A WD Caviar Blue 640GB is fast and quiet making it a good boot drive and you couldn't tell the difference to 10K Raptor and just $104 - even less I hear on Newegg. The 750GB Caviar is also good.
I keep just the OS and apps on boot drive and home user account is on 2nd drive which also helps and frees up space but more important, so each drive can be accessed concurrently.
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html
http://www.barefeats.com/harper9.html
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD6400AAKS/

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the title says it all. I've got an airport extreme and two hard drives connected to it. My idea was to use one as my additional storage (say DISC STORAGE) and the other one as my backup drive (say DISC BACKUP). I would like to backup my mac AND DISC STORAGE together to DISC BACKUP using time machine. My mac has 256 GB HDD, DISC STORAGE is 1 TB big, DISC BACKUP 2 TB. So there are no space issues.
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If your operating system is Windows 2008 and higher(Server) or Windows Vista and higher(Client).
Then you can use the native tool Disk Management to solve your requirement.
For opening Disk Management, Right click -> Computer -> Select Manage -> As result Computer Management console opens -> In the left pane under storage select Disk Management.
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- Since the unallocated space is not contiguous, when you right-click C: drive the "Extend Volume" option will be greyed out.
- So to solve your requirement, you have to backup the data on D: drive -> Delete D: drive -> right-click on the c drive and select "Extend Volume" -> enter the size you want to add
- Finally you can create a new D: drive from the remaining unallocated space and restore the backup data.
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Hello everyone, I recently got a PowerMac G5 (I think it's a 2.3 GHz). It came with a hard drive inserted 'Untitled', which came from my old 1.6 GHz G5. On the desktop though, I get two hard drive icons, my main start up drive called 'Untitled', and another one called 'Spare'. I was told that my G5 has only one drive inserted 'Untitled', so I'm trying to either get rid of 'Spare', or merge it somehow into 'Untitled'. Under the Volumes folder, I was not really able to get rid of it, is this something to do with Disk Utility?
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In the screen shots, 'Untitled' is model ST31, 'Spare' is model WDC

Hi BDAqua, sorry I should have just opened it in the first place! I don't know why that man told me there was only one hard drive inside, perhaps a misunderstanding.
It seems that there are actually two hard drives inside, one in A, and one in B (see photo)! So, if this is the case, I don't have a problem with the two hard drive icons.
I guess if a G5 shows two hard drives on the desktop, then there's two hard drives in the machine!
Thanks for helping anyway.

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Do the HD icons appear on your Desktop?
If not, adjust your Finder preferences:
Also check "Hard Disks" if you want your internal HD to appear on the Desktop.
Open one, open the other, should be no problem.

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Hi guys, I've been having some trouble turning on my computer. I found out that one of my hard drives (I have two) have been damaged. The damaged hard drive is 250 gigs. Its a MAXTOR hard drive and on the top right corner it says "DiamondMax 10" Then right below that... "250GB SATA150 HDD".
My second hard drive is fine, it has 150 gigs on it. However I am not able to start up my computer with that hard drive. Anyways, my real question is (or two questions)...
1) Is it possible to "upgrade" and get a hard drive that has more memory (such as 1tb) or would I need the same model to replace the bad hard drive?
2) Where can I find a replacement? Please list some sites or retailers.
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Sanfradan wrote:
Hi guys, I've been having some trouble turning on my computer. I found out that one of my hard
1) Is it possible to "upgrade" and get a hard drive that has more memory (such as 1tb) or would I need the same model to replace the bad hard drive?
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Concur with BD about the "avoid green" thoughts. The SATA300 drives I obtained have all been "plug and play" with no jumpers needed, so that's another plus.
2) Where can I find a replacement? Please list some sites or retailers.
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By 'cleaned' are you therefor meaning that the drive has been erased and the system re-installed?
Because that's the quickest way to deal with such a situation.
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