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Switch Master Drive with Slave Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="johntalin" data-source="post: 338606" data-attributes="member: 24431"><p>My new drive is 250GB. I don't know if I will ever be able to use it for any other Mac. Maybe you can give me some suggestions. My computer has parallel cable and I found out recently that all new computers are going the way of serial connection. Maybe you can tell me what my choices could be if my new drive outlives my Mac.</p><p></p><p>Once I decide that I don't need my Master Drive, could OS9 and OSX be erased from the Master HD? If yes, would you know the reason why you have to have the old Master HD? If not, then that explains it. </p><p></p><p>The reason I cloned the old drive onto the new one is that when I got all excited about Tiger DVD working, I went ahead and installed it right away. But, I still wanted OS9 on the new drive, also. Because, some of the old OS9 Applications were also contributing to the Master to be filled up (I still need those for one reason or another for some old stuff). I was told (when I first upgraded to Tiger) that if you Erase and Install your whole system, you have to start building from OS9. Once Tiger was already installed onto this new drive, I decided that it is easier to add OS9 via cloning. It works fine. I did not even need to reinstall OS9 Applications, either.</p><p></p><p>I needed to set up a new Apple Mail again. Though, as soon as I did that, all the cloned Emails, Drafts, Mailboxes, etc. were transferred. I don't know if I could just copy them from my old drive, because once I switch to HD2, all HD1 Emails were locked. I could have changed ownership and unlock them, but I thought cloning was easier. Also, once you change ownership in HD2, when you need to go do something in the Apple Mail again in HD1, you needed to change the ownership again. This only applied to the transition period, but since I did not know 100% what I was doing, I just went the easy way.</p><p></p><p>Just a note: To copy old Safari Bookmarks you go to Master HD1 and Export Bookmarks. To Export Bookmarks, you go to Safari Preferences, click on the Bookmark Icon, go to File, Export Safari Bookmarks and save them on HD2 in a file named anything you want. Then, you switch to HD2, go to Safari Preferences, click on the Bookmark Icon, go to File, Import Safari Bookmarks. They are added to your Bookmark panel in a folder named "Imported..." Then, you can just moved them to your Bookmark Bar.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for all the help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johntalin, post: 338606, member: 24431"] My new drive is 250GB. I don't know if I will ever be able to use it for any other Mac. Maybe you can give me some suggestions. My computer has parallel cable and I found out recently that all new computers are going the way of serial connection. Maybe you can tell me what my choices could be if my new drive outlives my Mac. Once I decide that I don't need my Master Drive, could OS9 and OSX be erased from the Master HD? If yes, would you know the reason why you have to have the old Master HD? If not, then that explains it. The reason I cloned the old drive onto the new one is that when I got all excited about Tiger DVD working, I went ahead and installed it right away. But, I still wanted OS9 on the new drive, also. Because, some of the old OS9 Applications were also contributing to the Master to be filled up (I still need those for one reason or another for some old stuff). I was told (when I first upgraded to Tiger) that if you Erase and Install your whole system, you have to start building from OS9. Once Tiger was already installed onto this new drive, I decided that it is easier to add OS9 via cloning. It works fine. I did not even need to reinstall OS9 Applications, either. I needed to set up a new Apple Mail again. Though, as soon as I did that, all the cloned Emails, Drafts, Mailboxes, etc. were transferred. I don't know if I could just copy them from my old drive, because once I switch to HD2, all HD1 Emails were locked. I could have changed ownership and unlock them, but I thought cloning was easier. Also, once you change ownership in HD2, when you need to go do something in the Apple Mail again in HD1, you needed to change the ownership again. This only applied to the transition period, but since I did not know 100% what I was doing, I just went the easy way. Just a note: To copy old Safari Bookmarks you go to Master HD1 and Export Bookmarks. To Export Bookmarks, you go to Safari Preferences, click on the Bookmark Icon, go to File, Export Safari Bookmarks and save them on HD2 in a file named anything you want. Then, you switch to HD2, go to Safari Preferences, click on the Bookmark Icon, go to File, Import Safari Bookmarks. They are added to your Bookmark panel in a folder named "Imported..." Then, you can just moved them to your Bookmark Bar. Thanks for all the help. [/QUOTE]
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