jarobata Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I'm going to upgrade my OS hard drive soon and I was wondering if I can just copy the current install over to the new hard drive or if that was a bad idea (I wouldn't mind copying over the windows xp install thats on that drive either). Thanks Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clv101 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I'd be interested in this - I have a decent OSx86 install now, but it's on a pretty old and slow drive. I'd like to move it on to a new, faster drive but I'm not sure how to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuz_242 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 at first i installed leo on an external usb drive. later on i copied the partition on an internal drive. i used acronis for backing up the partition and restoring it to the internal partition. (acronis is also part of the hirens boot cd ) to boot from the partition along with xp and vista i used easy-bcd. copying with ccc did not work for me (not bootable, maybe i´d need to use some terminal commands first) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 at first i installed leo on an external usb drive. later on i copied the partition on an internal drive. i used acronis for backing up the partition and restoring it to the internal partition. (acronis is also part of the hirens boot cd ) to boot from the partition along with xp and vista i used easy-bcd. copying with ccc did not work for me (not bootable, maybe i´d need to use some terminal commands first) Lol I've never heard of acronis or hirens but I'll take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 One possible way, although I haven't tried it yet, is to use Disk Utility on osx. First boot from a usb drive, or install cd, and then drag the hdd icon of your good install onto the disk utility icon. It will prompt you as to where to save the disk image, and there you go, a complete img file of you hdd that you can copy over to another hdd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSM Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I've done this twice using CarbonCopyCloner through OS X. Additionally, if you install Leopard via DVD onto the new drive while the old drive is connected, Leopard has a terrific migration assistant that worked well for me on this present install. It transfers all your apps, and user files without fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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