atae Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Anyone accomplished this? Im trying to transfer my working install to a new SATA drive without losing everything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17536-image-ata-hard-drive-to-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackhunter Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 tried it too. SATA HDD are working native in OSX on PATA disk. I made an image from OSX PATA partition and copied it to a SATA HDD. After that i made OSX partition aktiv. It boots but hangs then. it load my modified AppleVIAATA.kext everythings seems alright no errors but it says "waiting for root device". The working ..viaata.kext is loaded but anyway it doesnt boot. Any solution? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17536-image-ata-hard-drive-to-sata/#findComment-143266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackhunter Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Now I can boot to OSX with -f on bootstartup. What does -f mean and do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17536-image-ata-hard-drive-to-sata/#findComment-143314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom H Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Now I can boot to OSX with -f on bootstartup. What does -f mean and do?in Terminal type:$ sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.* then Restart Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17536-image-ata-hard-drive-to-sata/#findComment-143327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
psajcho Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Anyone accomplished this? Im trying to transfer my working install to a new SATA drive without losing everything. Yes. I used norton ghost and everything works Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17536-image-ata-hard-drive-to-sata/#findComment-143399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackhunter Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Ahh many thanks. It works. Now it boot up error free. sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.* <-- clear the driver cache files and -f forced to load the all driver at boot right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17536-image-ata-hard-drive-to-sata/#findComment-143400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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