To transfer the contents of the drive, put the new drive into a drive
enclosure,
connect it to your machine and use either CarbonCopyCloner
<http://www.bombich.com/> or SuperDuper! <http://www.shirt-pocket.com/>
to create a bootable copy of your hard drive. Both are free to use,
SuperDuper!
is slightly better in my opinion. Also, if your backup strategy
includes keeping a
clone of your hard drive, the purchased version of SuperDuper! has a
"smart
copy" feature that will do incremental backups of your hard drives in
much less
time than it takes to do a complete clone from scratch. Neither
CarbonCopyCloner
nor SuperDuper! will clone the Boot Camp partition because of its
different filesystem.
You will have to either reinstall windows or clone your windows
partition using
windows backup software like Winclone. You could also buy Parallels
or VMware
virtualization software and import your current windows partition into
a virtual
machine. You can let the Windows virtual machine operate the whole
screen,
giving you an experience nearly indistinguishable from running Windows
natively,
and you'd probably never miss not being able to natively boot windows.
As for replacing the hard drive, look at the instruction guides and
make very sure
that the task is within your range of competency, and make sure you
won't be violating
any extended warranty agreements. You may want to find a professional
to do it for
you. Fortunately, replacing a hard drive is a lot easier for your
hardware than it was
for some of the previous generations of macs. You can find detailed
instructions for
the MacBook at <http://www.ifixit.com/>, where you can also buy the
special screwdrivers
you'll need if you don't have them already. For the G5 iMac, look in
<http://www.apple.com/support/doityourself/>, or use one of these
guides:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/imacG5_17inch_harddrive.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/imacg5_20inch_HardDrive.pdf
You can also look at http://www.macinstruct.com/ for hard drive
cloning and
hardware help, and http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ has lots of discussions
of all
kinds of hardware upgrades.
I'm looking for instructions as to how to upgrade (to a larger
capacity) the hard drives on a G-5 iMac (now running OS 10.3.9) and
a two-year old MacBook (running 10.5 and Windows XP via Boot Camp).
Can anyone point me to step-by-step instructions - particularly how
to transfer the contents of the existing hard drives to the new ones
- perhaps by cloning (if that's the right term). Is it possible to
preserve the two partitions on the MacBook or would I have to
reinstall Windows? TIA....
David
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