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<blockquote data-quote="Vlad" data-source="post: 337932" data-attributes="member: 27908">It seems like you have it pretty much worked it out.&nbsp; You asked about losing space on you original drive, as long as you startup with the new drive all upgrades to&nbsp; the system will be on your startup drive. There shouldn't be anything written to the old drive. If you have 4 systems on your new drive then your eating up a lot of space unnecessarily.&nbsp; I've never use a cloning prgm. so I don't know for sure but the way I understand it is all you needed to do was format the new drive then run the carbon copy. If you installed a new system on the new drive, I wouldn't have bothered to clone.&nbsp; What I did on mine was&nbsp; copy the files I needed on to the new drive with a new system and then put aliases (shortcuts) to the applications I use in my dock. The applications that need something written to the prefs. will act as if it is the first time you used it.&nbsp;&nbsp; You may have to type in the keys again for prgms. like MS Office.&nbsp; Once you have done this the computer will use the applications off of your old drive and put the new files on your new drive.&nbsp; Basically I am lazy and didn't want to reinstall all of my applications and at the time I didn't think of a clone program.&nbsp; But I see no reason why if the computer sees your hard drive that you shouldn't be able to do a clone and have one system and a carbon of the first on the new drive.&nbsp;&nbsp; The issue with everything being slow may be from the fact that you are running a 160 gig drive at 128 gig (I don't know just a guess).&nbsp; My suggestion there would be, before you upgrade processors&nbsp; buy a 3rd driver card for your drive.&nbsp; They are cheap and you will get the full space of your drive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vlad, post: 337932, member: 27908"] It seems like you have it pretty much worked it out. You asked about losing space on you original drive, as long as you startup with the new drive all upgrades to the system will be on your startup drive. There shouldn't be anything written to the old drive. If you have 4 systems on your new drive then your eating up a lot of space unnecessarily. I've never use a cloning prgm. so I don't know for sure but the way I understand it is all you needed to do was format the new drive then run the carbon copy. If you installed a new system on the new drive, I wouldn't have bothered to clone. What I did on mine was copy the files I needed on to the new drive with a new system and then put aliases (shortcuts) to the applications I use in my dock. The applications that need something written to the prefs. will act as if it is the first time you used it. You may have to type in the keys again for prgms. like MS Office. Once you have done this the computer will use the applications off of your old drive and put the new files on your new drive. Basically I am lazy and didn't want to reinstall all of my applications and at the time I didn't think of a clone program. But I see no reason why if the computer sees your hard drive that you shouldn't be able to do a clone and have one system and a carbon of the first on the new drive. The issue with everything being slow may be from the fact that you are running a 160 gig drive at 128 gig (I don't know just a guess). My suggestion there would be, before you upgrade processors buy a 3rd driver card for your drive. They are cheap and you will get the full space of your drive. [/QUOTE]

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