My Reply follows quote. On 31/07/2004 08:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >on 31/07/04 10:13, Michael Richardson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have just purchased a 40gig hard drive from OWC for >> my Lombard(arriving UPS within the next hour or two, >> hopefully). I would like to know the most efficient >> way to get my current information switched from my old >> hard drive to the new one. >> Thanks once again. >> > >The problem here first is how you're going to have access to both drives at >the same time, since you want to transfer from one to the other. Do you have >any USB or FireWire enclosure? Do you have other ways to backup your current >drive so that you can switch the new one and restore on it? > >-Laurent. -------- The way I have done such things in the past is to hook up an external SCSI drive (the only kind I have on hand), boot the machine from a CD-ROM, copy the internal drive to the external hard drive, shut down the machine, install the new drive, boot from the CD-ROM again, format the drive, copy the contents of the external drive to the new internal drive. Tedious, but...
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