Question about cloning hard drives between computers...

I have a 500 GB Snow Leopard Partition on my 1 TB Mac Pro hard drive that I want to copy to my 2007 Macbook Pro 120 GB drive.

Is this possible? I think the Mac Pro (2,1) is 64 bit, and the Macbook pro is 32 bit. Would it make a difference? I am planning on using superduper or carboncopy cloner.

Advice please!

Thanks.

If you are thinking of moving the operating system from a Mac Pro to a Macbook Pro, it most likely will not work

Really? Are you sure?

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What are you trying to do? If you want to move your User account, Applications and files over then you can do that with migration assistant, best done with a firewire cable, or by putting the Mac Pro into target disk mode

How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac

I just want to clone the hard drives, including all programs, files, etc. Just want to basically run Snow leopard from my mac pro on my macbook pro.

Before I do this, I was planning on cloning the macbook pro to another hard drive to put in my mac pro. I bought a computer that has some applications that I would like to use on my macbook pro. And I don't have too much space left on my macbook pro so I would like to clone the macbook pro drive (120GB) to a bigger (250 GB) partition. Just kind of swapping them.

I'm not familiar with migration assistant. I will have to look into that. Thanks.

Your problem will be different drivers etc installed for MacBook Pro and Mac Pro. The best idea would be to use the Snow Leopard disc, subject to it being a retail install version and not one that came with a computer such as the MacBook Pro, and install the operating system and as louishen says use Migration Assistant to transfer everything over.

If the snow Leopard disc is a silver grey model specific disc, your best option may be to purchase Snow Leopard from Apple online for $19.99 which includes postage.

Be aware that the 'applications' on the computer you purchased are not legal if the discs and activation code did not come with the machine. Larger applications such as Microsoft Office and Adobe will not migrate but will need re-activation before you can use them. Some sellers use this tactic to make it appear the computer is worth much more that the selling price.

Maybe I am missing something, but what is wrong with buying the correct Snow Leopard install media for your MacBook Pro ?
Also, I am not sure how legal your proposal really is.

Cheers ... McBie

Looks like Harry can type faster than me.

Hmm, I was always under the impression that you can clone hard drives with the macs and swap them easily. I guess that's not the case? I'll have to talk to a buddy of mine who is a mac certified tech.

You can clone a hard drive and swap drives ..... within the same Mac.
Have a chat with your buddy and let us know, we can all learn from each other.
Also verify if it is legal what you are doing.

Cheers ... McBie