New HDD Swap

[Tom]

Dudes,

Is there a way to copy (exactly) the contents of one drive to another?

I want to install a new 200gb 2.5 drive into my macbook.

 

[David]

image it? try using acronis, alteris, norton ghost, that sort of product... or just shadow copy the lot and restore it with windows restore etc

 

[Nigel]

Not sure with a Mac Tom.

I've mirrored a HDD putting both of them into a PC before. That was easy enough.

 

[Mike_182]

Yeah, send it me I can copy and extend the partition.

 

[Tom]

Send?

 

[sn00p]

Assuming you've got the new drive connected up to USB or firewire and mounted...

http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html

You don't need to do anything magical in OS X, just copy the files making sure all hidden files and attributes are preserved.

Job done.

 

[Tom]

Well i have an xp partition i want to keep intact.

Ideally i want to preserve both partitions on the old drive and copy them directly to the new one. Insert the drive and boot like nothing happened.

Possible?

 

[sn00p]

Well i have an xp partition i want to keep intact.

Ideally i want to preserve both partitions on the old drive and copy them directly to the new one. Insert the drive and boot like nothing happened.

Possible?

Humn. I suspect something like "carbon copy cloner" or "super duper" will be able to do that, but I've got no experience with that so don't really know.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Are you wanting to extend the partitions you have with the new space or create another partition?