Urbz Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Hey, my aunt's got an intel iMac, i've got a HP dv4000 notebook with 3 partitions. We're gonna "switch" computers for three weeks because shes leaving the city for vacation and wants a laptop with her, to watch dvds on the plane, etc. What i wanted to do was, seeing as i have osx as my main operating system on the laptop, just "sync" over the whole user account, and so i'll have my account on her computer, and she'll have my computer. How would I go about doing this? I don't have a firewire cable, so I was thinking ethernet, but wasn't sure if migration assistant can use that... anyone ever completely synced 2 macs before? alright so that's part one: getting my mac stuff into her mac. I would also have to get everything back when she returns from her vacation and therefore "update" my laptop with it all. Here's part two: her account will be password protected, so her data is all very safe. But my laptop would be better suited for her if i just wiped everything off and installed xp or vista alone. It avoids much uneeded confusion and at the same deletes all of my stuff. I therefore want to take a "snapshot" of my laptop's drive and save it as a file on her imac. This way, when she gets back, we'll just rewipe the computer and slap on the image of my hard disk previous to the trip, then re-import my mac user data and programs. I have a little problem with this: i could probably save the whole drive as a compressed image on my laptop, but how do i do this? I have enough free space, but no programs let me save this image to the actual [same] drive! I've looked at r-drive image and symantec's ghost, but i can't seem to write with either to my own hard drive. What can I do? Is there maybe a way of doing this within a mac or windows session to save it directly to the iMac's drive? HELP!!! I dunno where to start! thanks in advance, Urby Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20080-getting-one-hard-drives-image-onto-anothers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 This doesn't belong here. It belongs in the hardware forum. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20080-getting-one-hard-drives-image-onto-anothers/#findComment-132165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogabean Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I have. With a firewire cable. The one that came with my iPod. I'm not aware of the Migration assistant working any other way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20080-getting-one-hard-drives-image-onto-anothers/#findComment-132220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Oh, this one's easy and you can do it multiple ways, but first you need to create the new account with the exact username, short name, and password. Then either: 1. Restart one as a target disk and shuttle all the folders within the home directory over. 2. Enable file sharing and shuttle the files over (utilizing IP over Firewire) 3. Utilize a box.net account or .Mac account and shuttle everything via those services (this would most likely involve high speed internet access) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20080-getting-one-hard-drives-image-onto-anothers/#findComment-134084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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