Yep -- dual boot, I've never made a boot disk before; is this a topic in the g-book FAQ's?
Secondly, with a PCMCIA firewire card can I use target disk mode with a blank hard drive? Michael. -----Original Message----- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Judge Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:10 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Hard Drive Exchange On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Michael Cangelosi wrote: > I am currently upgrading the HD on my Lombard . . . > I have no boot CD's (e-bay purchase) so I'm thinking of getting a > USB-enclosure for either drive, putting the 40 GB drive in, moving all > my data from the drive via so 9.2.2 to catch all the hidden files, > then swap the two hard drives in the enclosure/laptop. Sounds like the way to go. Are you running X? (Sounds like maybe yes since you mention hidden files.) If so, you could use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper or Silverkeeper or Apple's own Disk Utility to copy the current internal drive to the new drive in the external housing. It will be very slow since you just have USB1 (unless you have a USB2 PC card) but I think it should work. It's really not a lot of work - it's pretty easy to pop a drive in or out of most external housings. You really should make your own boot cd if you don't have any - OS 9 the old-fashioned way, or if you run OS X then use BootCD. Especially since you won't be able to boot off your old drive in the USB case, and you don't have a firewire port (if you did I'd recommend a firewire rather than USB case; you don't have a firewire card, do you?), & I'm pretty certain no SCSI external HD. Anne -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --------------------------------------------------------------- -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
