Wounded Tiger HDD

I booted up into the Tiger/OS9 partitioned HDD opening into Tiger one day an all the dock icons were gone as well as bookmarks and other preferences. I stopped using this Tiger HDD and went back to using an older HDD Panther. Then the kernal Panic attach happened.
I had already ordered two 650G internal HDD e-sata and an e-sata PCI card. After the kernal attach, I found a MDD G4 Mac on Ebay. I want to save all the programs and data currently on the wounded Tiger HDD. This is my plan, please tell me if I'm on the the right track.
1. install the wounded Tiger HDD into the ebay MDD computer.
2. install one new 650G HDD into the ebay Mac computer. Format this newe HDD into Mac Extended (Journaled) plus OS9 setting and divide the 650G into 4 partitions.
a. 100G for Tiger
b. 200G For storage
c. 200G For Storage
d . 100G for Storage
3. copy the wounded Tiger HDD onto the newly formatted 100G HDD via booting into Panther.
NEED HELP HERE, DON'T THINK DRAGGING AND DROPPING MAY BE A GOOD IDEA.
4. boot up Mac with Tiger using the install disc
5. reinstall Tiger over the newly copied Tiger 100G HDD using archive and clean install option. I think the old wounded Tiger system plus applications will be put into a different folder and then I will have to take out the applications and put them into the newly created System Folder.
Where does naming the new Tiger the same name as the wounded Tiger (Macintoshuser) come in?.
Is this correct? Have I forgotten anything?
I'm not going onto OS Leparad at the time, I'm tapped out money wise.
I have read about using a firewire external as a backup HDD, but can't the backup process also be done with an e-sata HDD following the same procedure?
Please advise.
Patt

BDAqua wrote:
Did you rename your home folder by any chance? The one with the house icon. If you did follow these steps:
I wish it were that easy. No the house icon has the same name.
2. Partitions for storage are sort of counter productive in OSX
Didn't know that, thanks. Wasn't really too excited to have all those HDs showing up on my desktop.
Note: OS9 will not boot from a Partition larger than 200 GB or so.
So, a 100GB allotment should be okay, right? Could I use the Migration Assistant to transfer the files from the OS9/Panther(soon to be Tiger) HDD?
3. I wouldn't copy it using Panther/10.3.x, I'd install Tiger/10.4 to it & maybe use Migration Assistant.
I was thinking about this today. Thanks I needed the confirmation. I Googled Migration Assistant; didn't know it existed.
The Migration Assistant suggested migrating from one Mac to another Mac via Firewire, but is it the same if it read, from one Mac HD to another Mac HD in the same CPU?
Whew, haven't had to do anything like this in 15 years. Can't fault my MDD, it was good to me for 7 years and it took a real beating at times.
Thanks for your help, and if you wouldn't mind please follow-up with more advice to my questions.
Patt

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    Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
    If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
    2. Do not proceed with an Archive and Install if DU reports errors it cannot fix. In that case use Disk Warrior and/or TechTool Pro to repair the hard drive. If neither can repair the drive, then you will have to erase the drive and reinstall from scratch.
    3. Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When you reach the screen to select a destination drive click once on the destination drive then click on the Option button. Select the Archive and Install option. You have an option to preserve users and network preferences. Only select this option if you are sure you have no corrupted files in your user accounts. Otherwise leave this option unchecked. Click on the OK button and continue with the OS X Installation.
    4. Upon completion of the Archive and Install you will have a Previous System Folder in the root directory. You should retain the PSF until you are sure you do not need to manually transfer any items from the PSF to your newly installed system.
    5. After moving any items you want to keep from the PSF you should delete it. You can back it up if you prefer, but you must delete it from the hard drive.
    6. You can now download a Combo Updater directly from Apple's download site to update your new system to the desired version as well as install any security or other updates. You can also do this using Software Update.
    If you do not have your Tiger DVD then you will have to reinstall 10.3, but to do that you will have to erase the hard drive first.

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