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ninjamini
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 Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject: How do I make a external HD boot? |
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I have been moving my files over from the PC to the Mini. Man what a chore. Not the doing part but the figuring out part. Let me first say how great all of you are to teach us newbies. Now for the question:
I got my $500 mini, 1GB of memory and a Maxtor 300 GB Ountouch. The mac store told me I voided the warrantee since I did the memory myself. But thats a story for another day.
Now that I have filled up 30 of the 37GB avaliable I would like to copy the whole drive to the Maxtor external and boot off of there. Here's why:
 300GB gives me alot of room to grow. Not really as much as I'd like ounce the DV cammera comes out.
Its a 7200rpm drive w/ a 16mb cache. Its just faster than the minis drive.
I can take it to NY with me and plug it into my bros mac and have my computer.
Any reasons not to do this?
How do I do it? |
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blazer
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The mac store told me I voided the warrantee since I did the memory myself. |
Who to you that? I'm 99.9% sure it doesn't void your warranty.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Download Carbon Copy Cloner and copy your HD.
Go to System Preferences > System >StartupDisk and pick your FireWire drive.
Enjoy
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kritoke
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I've seen posts on apple's discussion board that got locked because of this fact, as in someone was asking how to take it apart. I suppose if u don't totally mess up the mini when upgrading and replace the parts with the installed if u ever have to send it back, it hopefully will still be under warrenty. I guess they made it need a putty knife cause they figured no one would upgrade it that way, who knows, maybe their profit on these things come from the outrageous memory and install costs.
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ninjamini
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That says it for 10.2-1.03. Does it work for 10.4?
How do you boot to it ounce its copied? Does that change if you use a PC keyboard?
Is there something to make the mac look to the external disk without having to hold down a key?
Or should I just run the os of the mini drive and store data on the maxtor? |
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slickrick
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| ninjamini wrote: | That says it for 10.2-1.03. Does it work for 10.4?
How do you boot to it ounce its copied? Does that change if you use a PC keyboard?
Is there something to make the mac look to the external disk without having to hold down a key?
Or should I just run the os of the mini drive and store data on the maxtor? |
There is no Tiger version of CCC. You should be ok if you run in root, but there's a work around if you run into some problems because of some authentication issue.
http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=5264
http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=5270
From MacOSxhints:
In the Finder, open the window of the folder where you keep CCC.
Launch Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities).
Type bash --noprofile and press Return.
Type sudo open, and then press the Space Bar.
Drag CCC into the Terminal window from the Finder -- that will complete the line with the full path.
Hit Return and, at the prompt, enter your admin password -- your typing will not show. Hit Return after typing your password." |
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DoFa
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| Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Use SuperDuper to clone your mini to your external drive. The free unregistered version will do the job easily. If you like it. Pay the $19 registration fee and you can do scheduled "smart" updates back to your mini.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
The author of this program, Dave Nanian offers amazing support even for unregistered users. Ask him anything about SuperDuper and you'll get a response in a flash. |
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GadZooks
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About six posts down at MacNN shows how to easily clone a drive using Apple's DiskUtility.
Is there a reason to buy a separate product for this?
Cheers,
GZ |
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devo
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| Did they just add the free version of SuperDuper? |
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GadZooks
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Given Apple's glacial ship times, I'm afraid I don't have a Mac with which to answer that. I suspect not, though.
Cheers,
GZ |
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