> GLENSTREK wrote:
> What is the best way to transfer all contents of one hard drive to
a new larger one?
I've had the best luck simply using Disk Utility's Restore function
to clone (must be Panther or Tiger). Furthermore, it's free, and you
have it already.
Highlight any drive in the left column, it really doesn't matter
which one, but one of the two you're going to clone is best. Now go
to the "Restore tab" and drag the old drive to "Source" and the new
(previously formatted) drive to "Target" and hit the "Restore"
button. It's much faster than installing, so it shouldn't be too
long. If you get an error message right at the very end, it's
probably not valid in my experience. Normally the cloned drive is fine.
Another free method I've only used once, but actually did work (to my
surprise), was to clone from OS 9.x using Disk Copy 6.5b13. It must
be this specific version of Disk Copy which is a rare developer
version issued right before OS X. Normally Disk Copy is limited to 2
GB volumes maximum, and can't handle OS X stuff, for instance, this
Disk Copy can mount .dmg files in OS 9.x. I'm not going to vouch 100%
for this with Tiger, since Tiger is supposed to have some new
extended file system, but I'm pretty sure it's fine thru Panther.
It's really hard to find Disk Copy 6.5b13 for download. This only
link I know of can be found here:
http://forum.macworld.se/index.php?showtopic=20756
To use it go the the "Utilities" menu and select "Clone" and then
drag the drives to "Source" and "Target" and hit the "Clone" button.
Good luck!
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