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Any Geniuses out there?
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I’ve had a new hard drive for my macbook pro for a while now-
haven’t got around to installing it-I’m running 10.5 on it- Intel mac, of course-
I’m wondering-
could I partition the drive, and clone the drive from my old Powerbook on it?
That’s running 10.4, and has the old Classic environment too-I have at least one old program that doesn’t work with the latest system,
so it would be good to have all 3 os in the same place…I suppose I should just go and waste more time researching it myself,
but can’t be-
actually, just a bit busy at the moment…j
JB, i think that is possble yes
but a safer approach is to use an external drive
they cost virtually nothing now and it would mean you just carry it in your laptop bag
Thanks Steve-
I tried to boot from the powerbook in Firewire ‘Target’ mode,
and it just hung-
and that should act just like an external drive…
I think there might be an issue with the the drive format and the old os-
(he said, as if he knew what he was talking about…)I will have the old drive left over, so should be able to use that in a Firewire enclosure-
but they’re actually not all that cheap-
over a hundred € for the enclosure alone…I think I’ll have to get onto it when I’ve got a bit more time-
Also, I don’t suppose you’d know, since you’re here, is it possible to get an external monitor that would be compatible with the old powerbook DVI and a macbook pro?
The monitor on the PB has an intermittent fault-
but it’s still useful for Airport printing, and scanning…i bought a 2.5 enclosure on ebay for 6 euros recently to put the old drive out of my macbook pro and it works a treat
the DVI on the macbook pro is a standard dvi connection, i use mine with projectors and monitors all the time
jb7 wrote:
I’ve had a new hard drive for my macbook pro for a while now-
haven’t got around to installing it-I’m running 10.5 on it- Intel mac, of course-
I’m wondering-
could I partition the drive, and clone the drive from my old Powerbook on it?
That’s running 10.4, and has the old Classic environment too-I have at least one old program that doesn’t work with the latest system,
so it would be good to have all 3 os in the same place…I suppose I should just go and waste more time researching it myself,
but can’t be-
actually, just a bit busy at the moment…j
yes you can ….
heres how you do it
1. download a copy of superduper from shirt pocket..its free
2. install it on your old powerbook.
3. connect the hard drive to the mac pro OR the powerbook and use disk utility to format it ( mac journaled )and then partition it
4. connect the newly formatted/partitioned drive to the powerbook and launch superduper
5 choose a full backup of 10.4 etc and select the target as the partition on the new drive
6.select MAKE BOOTABLE !!!!! in superduper
7. remove hard drive and insert in spare bay in mac pro
8. switch on mac pro and go to system preferences…then choose startup disk and reboot9.Enjoy!
the stig wrote:
jb7 wrote:
I’ve had a new hard drive for my macbook pro for a while now-
haven’t got around to installing it-I’m running 10.5 on it- Intel mac, of course-
I’m wondering-
could I partition the drive, and clone the drive from my old Powerbook on it?
That’s running 10.4, and has the old Classic environment too-I have at least one old program that doesn’t work with the latest system,
so it would be good to have all 3 os in the same place…I suppose I should just go and waste more time researching it myself,
but can’t be-
actually, just a bit busy at the moment…j
yes you can ….
heres how you do it
1. download a copy of superduper from shirt pocket..its free
2. install it on your old powerbook.
3. connect the hard drive to the mac pro OR the powerbook and use disk utility to format it ( mac journaled )and then partition it
4. connect the newly formatted/partitioned drive to the powerbook and launch superduper
5 choose a full backup of 10.4 etc and select the target as the partition on the new drive
6.select MAKE BOOTABLE !!!!! in superduper
7. remove hard drive and insert in spare bay in mac pro
8. switch on mac pro and go to system preferences…then choose startup disk and reboot9.Enjoy!
… I’m going back to film
Thanks for that-
sounds reasonable…I have super duper, but I prefer Carbon Copy Cloner-
will have to give it a go-Is it possible to boot off USB or e-sata now?
Traditionally, it was necessary to use Firewire,
and the triple interface (e-sata, usb, Firewire 800) 2.5 enclosures are the expensive ones-
I can get a usb/e-sata enclosure for a fiver, like you said-I’ll have to look out my monitor cables, and see how they look-
Thanks again for the help-
j
j
as far as i know, you need a firewire drive to be able to boot an OS from it….
i paid for the extra features in SD and it prooved a lifesaver.
the paid version allows scheduling, which in my case is set up to do so 3 times a week. i configured it to run at 3am and to erase the target volume, then clone the main drive to it. that way i have an exact upto date clone of my main HD.also when i bought my mini and imac, i bought a firewire external drive. i partitioned it into two volumes and used SD to create a clone of both macs. i keep this aside waiting for doomsday.
i find it a better option than time machine. TM dosent copy ALL files in the OS, it wont copy some system files!!
so CCC or SD is, imo, much better.I dont use TM as a result.
the stig wrote:
j
as far as i know, you need a firewire drive to be able to boot an OS from it….
I kinda did think that…
I have to reorganize all my drives,
a terrifying prospect-
last time I did it I lost some stuff…I have about 2.5tb, but need another 1tb to do it properly-
Don’t like the look of Time Machine myself…
imo
dont buy a 1TB external drive…if it fails ( which it will sometime ) then you lose your backups.
much wiser to buy several individual drives and clone across each OS. Use DVD-r disks for all your data OR store your data online.will have to use big drives-
too messy as it is-Anyway, that’s another question altogether…
Thanks for the input-
will have to do something soon-j
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