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How difficult will this be?
I currently have a 20GB hard drive that came with my computer and a 100GB hard drive (that is failing and will die anyday now). How difficult would it be to remove both of these drives and just replace them with the new 250GB drive I bought? The problem I'm having is unlike the 100GB drive which I just backed up on DVD, the 20GB drive will not let me copy it to another drive. The 20GB drive currently has all my preferences as well as my authorization codes for various plug ins and such.
So I guess the main question is, how do I make an exact copy of the existing 20GB drive (preferably to DVD), remove the drive, and then partition the 250GB to be both my MAC HD and my Pro Tools Drive?
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Re: How difficult will this be?
The problem I was having when I attempted to drag it to DVD or another hard drive is I would get an error messaging saying, 'could not be copied because you don't have certain permissions' will Carbon Copy Cloner eliminate this.
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Re: How difficult will this be?
Yes, that's what Carbon Copy Cloner does. It will ask you for your password before it clones the drive, this gives the app permission to copy all those restricted access files.
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Re: How difficult will this be?
Why is only 128GB of my 250GB drive showing up?
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Re: How difficult will this be?
You must have an older machine that is pre-ATA6. Unfortunately any large internal drives will be limited to using only 128GB no matter how big they are, it's a limit of the ATA bus in your machine. Your options are to either pick up a PCI ATA-6 controller card, or get a firewire case to put the drive in, then you can use the full 250GB.
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Re: How difficult will this be?
I had an external firewire drive previous to this and it wouldn't boot from the drive. if i get a firewire enclosure will I be able to boot from this drive via firewire? The external drive only worked USB 2.0 and it totally sucked
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Re: How difficult will this be?
if I decided to bite the bullet and go to a G5 would I be able to put the 250GB directly in that? Do the G5s take another kind of RAM or can I also use the RAM from my G4?
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