the empty calorie Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Okay, here's the deal. I have OS X currently running, by dd'ing it to a spare 6.5G hard drive I had laying around. Now, I have a 37.6G drive that is now initialised and mounted in OS X. Now, I want to ditch the 6.5G in favour of the 37.6G, so I can have plenty of free space available. Keep in mind, my deadmoo image is gone now that i have formatted the 37.6G drive. how would I transfer the complete contents of the boot drive to the 37.6G (including boot sector) and be able to then take out the 6.5G and throw the 37.6 on primary master and boot from that? And then after that, be able to directly copy the 37.6G drive to another 37.6G drive... I'd prefer to do this all in OS X-86, as I am not a Windows user. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2847-moving-to-another-hard-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacdude Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Try Carbon Copy Cloner... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2847-moving-to-another-hard-disk/#findComment-18201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the empty calorie Posted September 24, 2005 Author Share Posted September 24, 2005 That didn't work for me...is there any other way? [edit] I just remembered the disc that came with my 37.6G drives..I'll give that a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2847-moving-to-another-hard-disk/#findComment-18629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 I use ditto to copy my drives. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2847-moving-to-another-hard-disk/#findComment-18662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu1 Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 Carbon Copy Cloner does work; it just has a problem on 10.4 When you authorise, it will hang. To cure this just open terminal, type 'top', find the pid of the process 'sudo' (above CCC) and make a note of it, then quit top. Now enter sudo kill <pid of sudo> CCC will now spring into life and you can cloan your boot disk to another. Stu. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2847-moving-to-another-hard-disk/#findComment-18754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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