[seedubxj]

So I have this dual 1.25 MDD tower with a 120gb HD. 2gb ram, FW80 PCI card. FW400 and USB (not USB 2.0, yet)

I have a line on two 500gb IDE 7200RPM drives.

I want to use one as the primary drive and the other as a backup, along with an external 500gb HD for redundancy.

I want to transfer all the stuff on my 120gb drive to the 500gb drive.

How do I go about doing this?

I believe my tower can hold 4 HDs, correct? Will I need additional cables or it is setup to handle two drives from Apple?

I also have a G3 ibook at my disposal, not sure if that will help the process or not.

I also have a retail copy of Leopard, if needed.

This may be a basic question, but I haven't a clue where to begin.

Thanks in advance guys. I truly appreciate it.

Also, is it worth upgrading the video card? if so, suggestions?

-Christian

[harryb2448]

Yes four drives, two on the right rear and two under the superdrive provided you have the sleds on which they mount. You will need cables for the two under the superdrive. The original hard drive cable has a second IDE connection for an additional drive.

Pop a 500GB HDD in the second position, making sure you have set the jumpers to slave. Format the drive Mac OS Extended (Journalled) and then use SuperDuper to clone the drive, which will be bootable, copy the 120 to the 500. Remove the 120, replace with the 500, setting the jumpers to master.

Later you can the additional drives as you see fit.

[seedubxj]

How do I set the jumpers (additional drives I assume?) to slaves? Is it an actual switch or something I change in the OS?