On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Tom<[email protected]> wrote: > How 'bout this plan, then: I put the first of the new drives in the G5 > alongside the old drive that's still working, and clone the old to the > Then I toss the old drive and put in the second new one, install > OS 10.5 on it, and let Time Machine restore the dead drive's data to > that one.
It sounds as though you intend to install OS X 10.5 on both of your drives so that both of them are bootable. Any particular reason why? Is this a common way to go in the Mac world? > I suppose I could stick the old working drive into an external > enclosure and keep on using it, if such can be had cheaply somewhere. Depends on what you mean by "cheaply". I think they run between $20 to $30, although you can of course always pay more. Here's a link to (some of) what's over at newegg just FYIW: http://tinyurl.com/mkulqg If it were me, one of the things I'd consider is how big the old drive is. And as I said I'd run the manufacturer's diagnostics on it ... and possible also the exerciser in the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test software ... to try to get an idea how reliable it still was. But you'd need an Intel system to run those tools. I don't think the drive manufacturers offer diagnostic software that runs on a Power PC platform. How big is your "not dead yet" 5 year old drive? -irrational john --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
