On Jul 16, 2009, at 12:46 AM, Stanton Mitrany wrote: > Do I need to put the brand new EIDE drive in the USB 2.0 enclosure, > and first format it with Disk Utility, or will simply connecting it to > my 12" PB G4 1.33 MHz running OS 10.5.7, and then running Carbon Copy > Cloner do the whole job for me, including backing up the whole old > drive which is still inside the PB?
The new HD will be formatted FAT32 most likely, so you'll need to format it using Disk Utility. Remember to use "Apple Partition Format" for your PPC PowerBook. > What settings do I have to use with CCC to get the whole shebang, or > as much as I can get, when I go to use CCC for my maiden voyage on her > hopefully reliable sails? > After this preparation, can I simply swap the newly cloned WD drive > into my PowerBook and expect all to work perfectly, or are there any > other steps I need to take? CCC on default settings should work fine. The problem with the CCC method is that you can't boot USB 2.0 on the PPC PowerBook, so you can't check the clone to see if it's bootable. If the clone fails to boot, you've got some extra work to do. Another perhaps better alternative would be to place the new HD directly into the PowerBook and place the old PowerBook HD into the external USB 2.0 enclosure. Then do a clean install of your current OS from DVD onto the new HD, and use Migration Assistant to migrate "everything" from the old HD to the new, clean installation. The advantage of this method is that you get a "clean" installation, and you know it boots. I've never had any problems with Migration Assistant, but I have had some CCC clones fail to boot. The disadvantage of Migration Assistant is that it could miss something (a non-Apple extension perhaps?) which would require reinstalling an application, or resetting preferences. I lean toward a clean install and using Migration Assistant, but it's also slightly longer in terms of total time. Cloning will be faster if the clone boots first time and works perfectly, but if there's a problem, you might need to use the clean install method. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
