On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:33 AM, JIM RAPER wrote:
> Hello, Y'all, > > I have a 450 Sawtooth AGP with 2 HDs, a 5400 60 gb and a 7200 10 > gb. Memory is one gig. When I upgraded from OS 9.2.2, I went up to > a very stable OS 10.2.8. I put the OS X on the 60 gb. I upgraded > to OS 10.2.8 about a year ago. > Recently I noticed my HD(s) sounds a little off. Louder than > normal. No problems yet. Also I am now down to 7.4 gb space left. > on the larger drive. I do some picture and sound work. > > I want to replace both hard drives with bigger, faster, quieter 200 > GB range HDs. Of course I want to keep what data, settings, apps I > have. I have been studying about cloning my present hard drive(s). > But, I am not sure if I can put the size (200 or more) into my > present machine as it is now. > > Can I do the bigger drives with my present OS? Do I need to go up > to 10.3 or higher? Is cloning a good way to go? > > TIA. Jim Hi Jim; A clone copy to an external HD would be the safest thing you could do. It should (people can sometimes screw up the simplest tasks) be 'Bootable', which will let you get back to 'square one' without problems. [I.E. --- Get an external 'FW case/200GB Drive' ---- Clone the 60 GB drive to a 60GB partition on the 200GB drive. Get out the screw driver, and swap the 60GB & 200GB drives (200GB in system, 60GB in external case.] At that point, you SHOULD be able to boot from the internal 200GB drive and be exactly where you were. (Except for now having 200GB internally.) IF THIS doesn't work, carefully restore the 60GB to it's internal status, and tell us what you DID do, and results. Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
