by denis <denis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jan 1, 2008 at 09:37 PM
On 2008-01-01 18:47:24 +1100, Charlie <puffinNO_SPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> In article <s57jn31je14mplbumsa7945li5hahmalbk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Barry OGrady <god_free_jones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I have a Powemac G4 which came with a 10 gig hard drive.
>> It has OSX 10.4 and Classic installed. The disk is full and I
>> can't see any large files I can delete to free up space.
>> I added a 20 gig hard drive as slave on the same controller
>> and OSX sees it OK.
>> I'd like to know the best way to use the 20 gig drive to free
>> up space on the 10 gig drive without reinstalling OSX.
>> With OS 9 I was able to initialise the new HD with disk utility
>> and just drag and drop the files across. That doesn't seem
>> to work with OSX.
>> Would it work if I just moved the applications folder to the
>> 20 gig drive, or must I reinstall everything?
>> Any advice is appreciated.
>>
>> Barry
>> =====
>> Home page
>> http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
>
>
> Download SuperDuper trial mode. Clone the original drive to the new
one.
>
> I did a similar exercise a while ago - pretty painless.
>
> Ended up buying the full version of SD for back ups...
>
> Cheers
Or try Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich software http://www.bombich.com
which is "...released as uncrippled shareware — try the full-featured
product until you trust it, then consider a donation to the Bombich
Software"
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