I wouldn't dd unless the drives were the same specifications. You could use Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner to make the copy to an external FireWire drive. You can then boot off the FireWire drive to make sure the copy worked. Once you know its good, swap the drives.
Brian On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:38 AM, "Mitch Haley" <m...@voyager.net> > wrote: > > > How in the world are you supposed to get speeds approaching the limits of > SATA-2 > > through an IDE-PATA interface? > > Is your PB so old that it's IDE? > > Yeah it's pretty old, a G4 processor. > > Still does what I need it to do though. Thought an SSD might give it a bit > of new life. > > Has an 80GB (upgraded from original 40GB by the PO) hard drive in it. What > I'm not sure about is how I'd go about transferring the contents of the > current hard drive to the new one. I don't have install media for the OS or > most of the applications. If I could get both drives connected I could use > dd(1) to clone the hard drive to the SSD.... > > Allan > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
