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<blockquote data-quote="Vlad" data-source="post: 338787" data-attributes="member: 27908">Macs are so user friendly I'm not quite sure how you made such a project out of this.&nbsp; hehe. Your email problems are lost on me.&nbsp; I have my email through my isp and don't use my address book, I keep all my important, sensitive info on a removable hard drive. (after part of a friends taxes showed up in my email ).&nbsp; Maybe someone else can help you there. If I understood you right, you cloned after you install a system on the new drive,&nbsp; I think most of your problems can be fix by starting over.&nbsp; I know you don't want to hear it but I think your best bet is to reformat your new drive after you get a new driver card or the software fix. Then clone your old drive.&nbsp; If its done properly it should be ready to go.&nbsp;&nbsp; All your mail prefs should be identical to the old drive, and work as they did there.&nbsp; I'm still confused as to what you mean by&nbsp; needing to keep the old master drive.&nbsp; If your Mac sees a drive and places it on the desktop and that drive has a system on it,&nbsp; it can be used as a startup drive.&nbsp;&nbsp; All the others are now slaves.&nbsp; This can be change anytime in the startup disk option in system prefs.&nbsp;&nbsp; Unless there is something different about your particular machine that I'm not aware of,&nbsp; this is how all macs work.&nbsp;&nbsp; To my knowledge once you change the start up drive you can use, remove, erase or ignore any hard drive other then the startup drive.&nbsp; You asked why I prefer a card over the software.&nbsp; There is no real reason other than, if slot space isn't an issue.&nbsp; Then I like a hardware solution over software. It's totally based on my ignorance of things I can't put a screwdriver to.&nbsp; I'm not sure I was any help to you.&nbsp; Again, macs are so easy to work with its really hard for me to understand how it got so complicated.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Good luck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vlad, post: 338787, member: 27908"] Macs are so user friendly I'm not quite sure how you made such a project out of this. hehe. Your email problems are lost on me. I have my email through my isp and don't use my address book, I keep all my important, sensitive info on a removable hard drive. (after part of a friends taxes showed up in my email ). Maybe someone else can help you there. If I understood you right, you cloned after you install a system on the new drive, I think most of your problems can be fix by starting over. I know you don't want to hear it but I think your best bet is to reformat your new drive after you get a new driver card or the software fix. Then clone your old drive. If its done properly it should be ready to go. All your mail prefs should be identical to the old drive, and work as they did there. I'm still confused as to what you mean by needing to keep the old master drive. If your Mac sees a drive and places it on the desktop and that drive has a system on it, it can be used as a startup drive. All the others are now slaves. This can be change anytime in the startup disk option in system prefs. Unless there is something different about your particular machine that I'm not aware of, this is how all macs work. To my knowledge once you change the start up drive you can use, remove, erase or ignore any hard drive other then the startup drive. You asked why I prefer a card over the software. There is no real reason other than, if slot space isn't an issue. Then I like a hardware solution over software. It's totally based on my ignorance of things I can't put a screwdriver to. I'm not sure I was any help to you. Again, macs are so easy to work with its really hard for me to understand how it got so complicated. Good luck. [/QUOTE]

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