Upgrading hard drive a ten easy step breeze!
3:57PM, September 10, 2007 - [ Permalink]
For the past few months, I've been having to watch how much space I have free on my PowerMac's system disk - which when I got it seemed vast (like all shiny new hard drives) expanse of space (160 GB) that I knew down in the core of my being I'd fill in short order.
Careful file management and good use of the other internal bay kept this at bay for some time, but finally, I just had to get larger drive. So, I called up Mark over at Jademark and ordered me up a 500 GB Seagate drive.
Over lunch, I picked up the drive, and today, I installed it. The steps are pretty simple.
- Install new drive in external FW case.
- Partition and name drive in Disk Utility
- Download and fire up the free version of SuperDuper
- Set SuperDuper to clone my system disk to the new disk.
- Go for a picnic in the Majors Hill Park with Tracey, my sister Jenn, niece and her friend.
- Come home, find the cloning is complete, shut the system down.
- Pull the drives out of the G5 and hard drive enclosure, dusting while the case is open.
- Put the newly cloned system disk into hard drive bay A, and close the case up
- Fire up the PowerMac - Success!
- Put old drive into external FW case and retask it.
In all, I spent about fifteen minutes of time - mainly putting the drives into the external case, dusting the inside of the PowerMac and installing the hard drives into it. SuperDuper really Super-Duper, making the task of cloning my system disk a (nearly literal) walk in a park. And now, I have some serious breathing room on my system disk. Hurray!
No reinstalling software, no messing with the OS. I love my Macs.
