Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Replace MAC disk - keep address book etc - Help pls

  • 03-08-2003 1:48am
    #1
    tonky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 897 ✭✭✭


    Hi to all those sensible people who use a MAC.
    I have a pair of MAC G4's OS-X.
    The HD on one of them is sounding a little funny, so I need to replace it asap.
    Setup is: 60Gb primary divided into 2 partitions. MacHD 30Gb and Data 30GB.
    I have a New 60Gb slave drive in the machine divided as above Untitled and Untitled 2. Is there a way of 'cloning' my existing drive, keeping the settings and especially my address book, mail etc ?.
    In Windoze I'd do an xcopy32 /c/h/e/r/k etc - is there an equivalent, or is a fresh install/copy required.


Comments

  • #2
    shabbyroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭shabbyroad


    I'm on the DAW-MAC mailing list (digital-audio-workstation-mac) and recently there was a discussion around this. I'm hearing good reports about CCC (see below)

    Prior to OSX (Im still running OS9.2 on my audio workstation) HDT Hard Disk Toolkit allows a bit for bit image to be made of a drive. That's been very effective for me.

    On OSX I hear that there is an application called Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) available from here :

    http://www.bombich.com/software/index.html

    The purpose of Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) is to assist you in moving your entire Mac OS X installation or selected folders from one partition to another as easily as possible. CCC can copy all the system files necessary, maintaining Unix permissions and ownership, to create a bootable backup of your drive. Moving your X installation to a larger hard drive? CCC is right for you!

    and it's donation-ware, you get to try and and make an appropriate donation if you decide to keep and use it.

    Hope that helps.


  • #3
    tonky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 897 ✭✭✭tonky


    Thanks for that, Nice piece of software.


Advertisement