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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Koenig Kurt:
But, to be true, you haven't been honest: You can't do it via Fire Wire ;)
Sure I could. File sharing is file sharing, networking is networking. If both of my machines have firewire ports, there's nothing stopping me from moving files over it.
It just works a little differently with win. You load the OS on the new machine, point it at the files and settings transfer files on the old machine and away you go. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Okay Waskel, you win!
Good to hear that Windows became a little more user friendly in the last years.
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Location: NJ | There's also a company called Carbonite that'll back-up(online) your entire machine ($50 for a one-year subscription).
She could back-up, change out the drive and then restore it. |
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Location: closely held secret | Kurt, don't get me wrong. I kid about Macs a lot, but I have respect for them as computers, more so now that they are running Linux. My gripe has been their proprietary attitude, and that has slowly been changing as well.
The main reason I stick with Windows is simply the sheer volume of software available for it. I do a lot of video and audio stuff (yes, I know Macs do both well). But almost anything I need to do, I can get on the web and find either a free utility or a cheap shareware program for XP.
This is probably the reason Apple has gone to such lengths (intel procs, boot camp) to be able to run Windows on the same machine. I haven't heard anyone clamoring to be able to run OSX under Windows...
Cliff, Carbonite is really for data backup. Even if you backed up the apps it's unlikely the new kernal would recognize them as installed. |
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Location: NJ | Yeah, I knew that.
I must've mis-read it.
I thought she was just trying t'save the data. sorry. carry on . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Jeff, if it's running Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, I would say your best bet is to pick up a larger drive, an external firewire enclosure for it, and Superduper (relatively cheap, $27.95), clone the drive, then swap them.
It's not even a complete loss, because if you get a decent enclosure you now have an external drive available for your machine. Or get yourself a bigger external drive and use Superduper to backup your boot drive.
By 'decent' enclosure I mean one with a good cooling fan and airspace around the drive. Those 'designer' enclosures sometimes fit the drive like a glove and seriously shorten the drive's life because of overheating. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I appreciate the input...
I think we have formulated a plan. This is a great board... |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Okay, so I was banging away on a number of different projects tonight, including this little project for Jeff. Took a step back and had to laugh and take this picture:
Left to right: PowerBook G4, iBook G4, Black MacBook, iPhone in front of it, keyboard/video/mouse, iBook G3 w/ external firewire drive attached. Under desk: Linux Server, IBM ThinkPad (corporate, for work at home), and an array of other toys and thingamajiggers. |
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Location: closely held secret | Wow. And I do most everything I need with only one PC... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | What, no neural interface? |
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Location: Poplar Bluff Mo | You can also use "Carbon Copy Cloner" (freeware) to make an exact copy of yu hard-drive on an external drive or another machine. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
I haven't heard anyone clamoring to be able to run OSX under Windows... Oh, there ARE a few of us around.
Or, should I say, run OSX on a Windoze machine - not UNDER Windoze.
With an Intel Mac, you can boot Windoze direct (not 'UNDER' OSX) but... why would you want to?? :D |
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OT: Clone Old Hard Drive Before Upgrading??
