Changing Hard Drive

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Changing Hard Drive

I've been searching around, but can't seem to get a definite answer.

I have a G5 with a main HDD that's about 80g. Unfortunately, I've learned that even though I installed what I could on other drives, it's running out of space when I do movie editing and stuff.

What I want to do is buy a new HDD and simply swap them out.

How do I add the 2nd HDD and make a copy of the main HDD so I can remove it (note: I want to completely remove the main HDD when done with the process)?

Thanks for the help.

Jason

G5 Power, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on May 13, 2009 8:24 PM

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Answer 1

May 13, 2009 8:31 PM in response to Rebel Red

I've been searching around, but can't seem to get a definite answer.

My guess is you haven't looked hard enough, as similar questions have been covered extensively.

Install the drive and use Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the system on the old drive over to the new one.

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Answer 2

May 13, 2009 8:37 PM in response to Rebel Red

Hi Rebel Red,

Welcome to Apple Discussions!

Try this tutorial:

There is an Apple utility program called Apple restore or asr located in /usr/sbin. Connect your external USB hard drive and format it using Disk Utility. Open the Terminal in Applications -> Utilities. Type the following command line into the Terminal to copy your hard drive over your external drive.

% sudo asr -source /Volumes/OSX BOOT VOLUME NAME/ -target /Volumes/TARGET VOLUME NAME/
Replace “OSX BOOT VOLUME NAME” and “TARGET VOLUME NAME”

with actual volume names. asr will take quite some time to copy the contents of hard drive to external hard drive. Get a cuppa, pop in your iPod earphone and relax.

When asr completes the execution, it will print a message:

asr: did not copy blessed information to target, which may have missing or out-of-date blessed folder information.
Then, bless your target drive with this:

% sudo bless -folder /Volumes/TARGET VOLUME NAME/System/Library/CoreServices

Now, the hard drive is bootable. Restart your Mac and hold down “option” key. A screen will appear allowing to choose which volume to boot from.

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Kind Regards,

Peter.

Message was edited by: Peter Miller

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Rebel Red Author

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May 13, 2009 8:42 PM in response to Templeton Peck

Templeton Peck wrote:

My guess is you haven't looked hard enough, as similar questions have been covered extensively.

Install the drive and use Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the system on the old drive over to the new one.

Well, I could point out the word "definite" in my post.

I found some stuff about Super Duper and CCC, but it seemed like it was mainly for mirroring and that I'd have to leave my original HDD in place.

But I'll take your word on it. Just need to buy the HDD then and I'm set.

Even though I've been a Mac user for many years, I never had to do this. Guess I just failed to plan well on this Mac. 😟

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