My Internal HD is full

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My Internal HD is full

My internal HD (13gigs) is full. I've attached a 40 gig external. I would like to bypass the internal HD and use the external as my main HD. Is there a way to do that? Can I easily migrate what I have on the Internal drive to the external?
Answers are gratefully appreciaetd.
Bob

Imac G3 LE, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Aug 13, 2006 4:48 PM

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Eric Kracinski

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Aug 13, 2006 4:57 PM in response to bob94117

Welcome to the discussions!

As long as that external drive is a FW drive, you can clone your internal drive to it using SuperDuper and then use it to boot your iMac with no problem.

If you want to make this a permanant solution, with the drive attached and powered up, go to your sys prefs and select "startup disk" and change it to that external FW drive.

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PT

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Aug 13, 2006 6:02 PM in response to Eric Kracinski

I also recommend Carbon Copy Cloner as it is free so you can do incremental backup updates as well as a full cloning of the drive. SuperDuper only allows incremental backups with the paid for version. Full cloning, however, is available in the free version.
I have never heard anything negative about SuperDuper, so not trying to sway anyone away from it, just suggesting CCC as an alternate.
Patrick

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bob94117 Author

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Aug 13, 2006 6:58 PM in response to Eric Kracinski

Thanks for your speedy reply. Your solution worked perfectly!

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Aug 13, 2006 7:06 PM in response to bob94117

Glad to have helped. Be sure to stick around and ask any question that you have. We'd love to have you around.

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