Want to move my SL to MBR disk

[toolbox1234]

I have a 10.6.3 installed on a GPT disk and I want to move it to my main drive which is partitioned in MBR. Will I run into issues if I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy Snow Leopard over?

 

UPDATE: I used CCC and is able to boot up SL on my MBR based drive.

[Beerkex'd]

Have you read the manual?

 

I've never used CCC but it looks like you must format the partition to HFS+ first (at least):

http://www.bombich.com/software/docs/CCC/e...iew/format.html

 

I can't tell from the documentation if it will work with an MBR formatted drive at all.

 

Try it and see. Remember you'll have to manually install a bootloader on the MBR formatted drive after copying your Snow installation to it.

[srs5694]

It should work fine. That's how I installed my 10.6 system onto an MBR disk -- I installed to a spare disk that I partitioned as GPT, then copied the installation to an MBR disk. I'm 95% sure I used Carbon Copy Cloner, but that means there's a 5% chance I'm remembering incorrectly and I used something else.

[toolbox1234]

Have you read the manual?

 

I've never used CCC but it looks like you must format the partition to HFS+ first (at least):

http://www.bombich.com/software/docs/CCC/e...iew/format.html

 

I can't tell from the documentation if it will work with an MBR formatted drive at all.

 

Try it and see. Remember you'll have to manually install a bootloader on the MBR formatted drive after copying your Snow installation to it.

 

Thanks. I think I should be able to format the partition to HFS+. As of now, my Leopard setup is on a HFS+ partition on a MBR based disk and co-exist with Win7. I will have to look into the bootloader

 

 

 

 

It should work fine. That's how I installed my 10.6 system onto an MBR disk -- I installed to a spare disk that I partitioned as GPT, then copied the installation to an MBR disk. I'm 95% sure I used Carbon Copy Cloner, but that means there's a 5% chance I'm remembering incorrectly and I used something else.

 

Thank you, good to hear success story before I make the move. Even if CCC doesn't work out, at least I know it is possible to have SL on a MBR based drive.