change from Tiger to Leopard

Sorry, I seem to have given you the wrong key - that one boots to Safe Mode.

Hold down the option (alt or ⌥) key no later than the chime, and hold opt until the pictures appear.

Once again my apologies for the slip.

Sometimes you get the Macintosh HD one with an arrow pointing to the right. Clicking the arrow brings other boot volumes into view.

How did you do the transfer? Using the restore function as detailed above?

Another place you can set the boot volume is System Preferences > Startup Disc.

If you use that you'll need to use it again from the clone to get back to the internal drive.

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Got to go for a while (food and TV with my wife calling).

I may have a bit of time later before bed (it's currently 17:50 here)

If the restore option hasn't done it, I would suggest reformatting the WD again using the Partiton tab in DU.

Select 1 partition, click the options button below the blank diagram and select GUID as the partition map, Select Mac OS Extended (Journalled) as the file system. Give the volume a name, then click Apply.

You can then either use the restore function again, or download the free version of CCC and use that to clone the internal to the WD.

Command click? Where did that come from?

Double-click to open the mounted WD.

However, the fact that all the data has been transferred doesn't of itself make the drive bootable.

Using the restore function should make a bootable clone, but if it hasn't, try CCC as above.

But check that the partition map is set to GUID as mentioned. That's required to boot an Intel Mac.

Salect the top level of the drive in DU, under any of the first three tabs, and the partition map should be shown at the bottom right.

Probably too late now, but if it booted to the Passport all you needed to do was check that everything works before upgrading the internal drive.

You'll need to reset the startup preference to the internal drive before restarting.

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Barbararose wrote:

And I didn't Erase yet. (Interrupted)

Are there pros and cons ?

I had both OS 9 & OS 10 on the G3. It still does what it did.

It is destined to recycling when I clear a path to it.

As far as I know I won't miss anything that's on it.

And I haven't imagined any hazards to not erasing it --

since the recyclers just take it apart anyway -- right ?

I don't recall you mentioning a G3 earlier, but if you want to recycle it I would definitely erase the HD; in fact I'd use Secure Erase to over-write the data on it.

Recyclers will sell on for refurbishment any working saleable parts.

I don't begin to use the storage potential on the laptop.

The only disadvantage of erasing the internal drive to install Cleanly

that I can think of -- is the time to erase.

I suspect there's stuff on the laptop that is a Waste of Space.

So I think I should start a new discussion about understanding

what can be trashed safely.

Probably a good idea; it's a subject by itself.

If I have software that worked on Tiger but wouldn't work on Snow Leopard,

wouldn't it be an advantage to use the drives separately ?

You will certainly need updates/upgrades for some software, not all of it free.

Printer drivers will need updating (could be a problem if the printer's older than a couple of years).

For applications like AppleWorks to continue working, you need to ensure you select Rosetta in the custom installs when running the Snow Leopard installer.

You can indeed retain Tiger on the WD to boot from to use older software.

BTW I don't suppose there is any software on Snow Leopard that would

do the automatic back up.

Yes, it's called Time Machine, but it needs a seperate dedicated drive (in addition to the WD) and confuses a lot of people when trying to use it.

There's an excellent article by Pondini here; http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html