Of course I will start by saying I know just enough to be dangerous. Here's what I've done and what I'm dealing with.

I have a pretty lady friend who asked me to help with her MacBook. She purchased a new 320GB Seagate HD drive and wanted to copy all of her data to the new larger HD. She previously had an 80GB Toshiba drive.

The MacBook:
Mac OS X (V 10.4.11)
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2GB

I have a HD copier that I tried to use initially. It's a Disk Jockey Pro by Diskology. I copied the 80GB drive to the 320GB drive. Put the 320GB drive into the MacBook and it booted fine. The problem was that the 320GB drive was not formatted previous to my copy. So I ended up with a 300GB drive that has 2 partitions. 1 partition has 74GB formatted with Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and the 2nd partition with 223GB of Free Space. What I'm trying to do now is copy the image to the original HD, format the new 320GB HD, and move the image to the 320GB drive. So to do this I pulled both drives and connected them to an iMac G5.

The iMac G5:
Mac OS X (V 10.3.9)
1.6 GHz PowerPC G5
Memory: 512MB
150GB HD with 139.7GB of available space

I formatted the 80GB drive since all of the current data is on the larger drive. The problem now is when I connect the 320GB drive to the iMac to create the disk image using the Disk Utility I receive an error that my image/device is too large. I figured this was because the image is for the whole disk and not just the data.

So what I was thinking about doing is somehow copy just the data to 80GB drive and then format the 320GB drive. Then, reinstall OS X on the 320GB drive and try to use the migration assistant to put everything back. Please let me know if this is the best course of action or if you have any suggestions.

Install OS X Leopard to 80Gb disk (or find a Mac with Leopard already installed) then check this link:
http://www.makemacwork.com/resize-disk-partitions.htm
Or do this (Leopard is not required):
http://www.macworld.com/article/55274/2007...geekfactor.html

I found a copy of Leopard to install on the 80GB drive and then connected the 320GB drive. I could expand the HFS+ partition on the 320GB drive. Leopard allowed me to use the disk utility as I wanted. My pretty Finnish friend is fixed and happy. Thanks again for your help!

Happy to help