From personal experiences I have found that cloning this guy can be QUITE tricky. I started off with a 400gb SATAII 8mb cache seagate. It is a VERY loud drive in my case. Every read and write was annoying me. So I bought a Western Digital 500gb 16mb cache to clone to. I've done this 5 times. It gets easier each time, but there are a lot of steps involved, and missing one can mess you up.
The following tutorial assumes you're using SATA but it may also work for IDE.
Step 1 - Swap the drives (optional).
Take your master drive with osx86 and set it as the slave. Take your new drive and set it as the master. This will help keep things less confusing for later steps that involve activating your partition.
Step 2 - Boot of the cd and use Disk Utility to format.
There are a few things involved with this step that one can miss. I have done it a few times and it results in a blinking cursor and the Darwin Loader not loading after a clone. So put your cd in and boot off of it. Go do some sit ups or drink a beer, it takes a while. Once loaded launch Disk Utility. If the top left never turns to Disk Utility, close it and re-open it. My cd likes to try to load things the first time but never completely does until I relaunch it. Once inside Disk Utility you're going to select your drive you want to clone to. DO NOT SELECT THE PARTITION ON THE LEFT SIDE. Make sure you SELECT THE ACTUALY DRIVE. The partition is the disk tabbed in and under the main drive. You should see something like "465.8 GB Maxtor 7H500". Fill in your details there. Once you have it selected click the Partition tab on the right side. This is where a lot of people get confused. Before formatting it, click options in the bottom. From the options menu click "GUID Partition Table". This is needed in order to boot an x86 mac computer. I would start off with 1 partition for now and add one later. Name it if you want and click Partition.
Step 3 - Verify the format
Once formatting and partitioning has completed you want to verify your format. With your drive selected click the info button on the top. Make sure your Partition Scheme is FDisk_partition_scheme. If it isn't you may want to reformat your drive in step 2.
Step 4 - Reboot into osx86 and clone
Many people have suggested SuperDuper! and CCC. I had trouble with both of these and found that Apple's own Restore works the best. Once you are back into your normal osx86 install launch /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.Once you are in click the Restore tab. Drag your original OSx86 partition (not drive) onto the Source text field. Then drag your new drive partition onto Destination. Click Restore. Do some more pushups and situps or go run. Or solve for pi.
Step 5 - Disable old drive and boot up
Soon as restoring has finished you want to Shut Down and unplug the original OSx86 installation completely. This will make for solving your new OSx86 booting problems easier. 9 times out of 10 the Partition Scheme is wrong and the drive can't boot. Most choose the wrong type.
Step 6 - Cross your fingers
If all went perfect you will get 1 of 3 results.
A) It booted into OSx86
You received an error "b0 error"C) You are staring at a blinking cursor and that is it
If A) happened... good job, all is done.
If
happened... we can solve that with the next stepIf C) happened... you may have missed a step on partitioning your drive correctly, try again
Step 7 - Solve that nasty b0 error
A b0 error usually means Darwing Loader can't find the active partition to load. In order to solve this you must make your newly partition active! Rammjet wrote a cool little tutorial on how to do it. I suggest you follow his steps:
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By Rammjet
There is a built-in Unix utility in MacOSX that can be used to set your partition "Active". It is called Fdisk
Setting Your Partition "Active" Using Fdisk
Words in bold below are things you must type (followed by Enter).
1. Boot your Mac OS X install dvd
2. Once the installer is running, go to the Utilities menu and open Terminal
3. Determine which disk your MacOSX partition is on
4. Start using Fdisk
5. Determine which partition for MacOSX needs to be set "Active"
6. Set the partition "Active"
7. Save and exit
8. Remove the install DVD and reboot
There is a built-in Unix utility in MacOSX that can be used to set your partition "Active". It is called Fdisk
Setting Your Partition "Active" Using Fdisk
Words in bold below are things you must type (followed by Enter).
1. Boot your Mac OS X install dvd
2. Once the installer is running, go to the Utilities menu and open Terminal
3. Determine which disk your MacOSX partition is on
Type diskutil list
Verify which disk number holds your partition (disk0, disk1, etc.)
4. Start using Fdisk
Assuming the MacOSX disk is the first disk ("disk0"), then
type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 <== use "rdisk" with your disk number here !!
Ignore the error "fdisk: could not open MBR file ..."
5. Determine which partition for MacOSX needs to be set "Active"
Type p
Verify which partition is for MacOSX (1, 2, 3, etc.)
6. Set the partition "Active"
Assuming it is partition 1, then
type f 1 <== use your partition number here !!
7. Save and exit
Type write
Type y (yes you are sure)
Type exit (to quit)
8. Remove the install DVD and reboot
I hope this helps anyone. Feel free to share your questions and comments. I'll update this if anyone has anything they think I should point out.
