Upgrading system disk

ChuckS · #1 12-05-2008, 04:19 AM

I have a MacPro with 10.4.11 and a 250GB system drive. Everything is running great! However my system disk only has about 40GB of available space.

Using SuperDuper I copied the contents of my system disk to an external FW drive and made it a bootable drive. If I replace my current drive with a larger 500GB drive can I boot from the external drive?

If so, could I then use SuperDuper to copy the cloned data from my original system disk to the new 500GB system disk?

And after I did would all 500GB's be available or would copying the data to the new drive simply partitioning it the same as the old leaving the additional 250GB un-readable?

I hope this makes sense. As always any help would be greatly appreciated.

dnanian · #2 12-05-2008, 08:17 AM

Yes, and all 500GB would be available. Make sure you partition properly first; this is covered in many threads in the forum, so please search around a bit.

ChuckS · #3 12-05-2008, 11:14 AM

Thanks.

I suspected there would be a need to partition, I'll try to figure out how to do that.

RonaldPR · #4 12-05-2008, 03:06 PM

See my posting here: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/s...2&postcount=16

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