Mike Los Angeles iMac SE DV
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On Nov 23, 2003, at 3:43 PM, Charles Martin wrote:
From: Debra Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have an imac 400 mhz dv graphite, 128 ram. Would it be better to upgrade
the internal hard drive or add on a firewire hard drive? Also, I'm still
running OS 9 and would like to upgrade to 10. Any suggestions on what
exactly I should do and what I will need?
You should upgrade both drives, really, but if you don't want to fuss with disassembling the machine, just get a FW external or a case to put an IDE internal into. IIRC, you should not bother with any drive larger than 120GB, since the iMac is unable to "see" beyond about 128GB of space (a limitation of the chipset).
So you want to upgrade to OS X? Here's my suggestions:
1. Buy a 512MB stick of RAM to add to your existing RAM. You'll be REALLY glad you did this later.
2. Run Diskwarrior or Norton Utilities (from the CD) on your existing OS 9 to make certain the directory is in good shape. This is a CRUCIAL step to avoiding problems later on. You might want to defrag the drive too.
3. Use your new hard drive to make a complete backup.
4. Install OS X. It won't erase your OS 9 unless you tell it to erase the entire hard drive (don't do that).
5. After the reboot and registration, open the program Disk Utility (it will be in the Applications -> Utilities folder) and Repair Permissions.
6. Can't recommend this too highly -- buy a copy of Scott Kelby's book THE MAC OS X CONVERSION KIT from here: http://www.scottkelbybooks.com/new/osxconv.html
Again, you will thank me later for that.
Enjoy!
_Chas_
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