On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:16 AM, g3-5-list group wrote:
> == 1 of 1 == > Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 5:02 pm > From: Richard Ramsowr > > > To feather clarify the issue, the bootable drive in question is an > internal drive tied to the ATA bus. > > I'm rig is a Dual 1 GHZ, Power PC, G4 (QuickSilver 2002). Oh, nice to know a little more. Nice upgradeable machine. Do you have a non-bootable hard drive already in there? There are several ways to go. Simplest, and probably the cheapest is to put a new drive inside. Clone the old one to the new one. Then reinitialize the old one and use it as a bootable backup after cloning the OS and any other stuff back to it. Better is to buy an external, bootable Firewire or USB-2 hard drive. Clone the old one to it. Replace the old one with a new, internal hard drive, clone back to the new one. Now you have a nice backup external drive too. A variation on the above is to buy a naked hard drive without a case. Buy an external case to put it in. Clone to the external. Remove the new drive from the case and exchange it with the old internal drive. Now you have invested in one hard drive and the case, and you now have a bootable, external drive, using the old one. Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml 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/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
