acadiel
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| Buying 250GB HDs - how to move data?
I'm going to go purchase some of those WD 250GB's from Sam's or another retailer tonight (Sam's has them for $129).
Setup: I have a 100GB system disk and an 80GB "Extra" data disc.
Moving the data from the 80GB disc should be relatively straightforward, but how the heck do I move the data from the 100GB one that contains OS X?
Thanks in advance! |
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rjackson
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acadiel
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| Great....
I put the two 250GB HDDs in the ATA66 bus for right now. I went ahead and ran CCC on them after I formatted them with Disk Utility and installed the OS9 drivers. (BTW, old ones were named Macintosh HD and Extra and new ones were "New Macintosh HD" and "New Extra HD").
After I finished, I put the two 250GB HDDs on the ATA100 bus, booted into OS X and renamed them back to "Macintosh HD" and "Extra".
Its running fine, except that I can't boot into OS9 any more. The OS9 data files are on the Extra disk. I've zapped the pram, etc. When I hit the OPTION key to select the OS9 stuff on the extra disk at bootup and boot, I just get a grey screen. When I boot back into OS X and select OS9 to boot from Startup Disk and reboot, I get a grey screen and have to reboot and hold down the OPTION key to select OS X again to boot.
If I select OS X from the Startup Disk, the thing boots up fine.
BTW, Classic works under OS X - and it uses those same data files.
Any ideas, folks? |
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acadiel
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Bloomington, IL | BTW, I forgot to add this: When I boot with the OPTION key, the disks are named "Macintosh HD" and "New Extra HD" - why would it still be having that old name when I booted into X and renamed it? |
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Carbon Copy Cloner is only designed to duplicate Mac OS X volumes and make them bootable, so I have no idea how to go about getting OS 9 bootable again. Perhaps you need to bless the system folder? |
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acadiel
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| Well, I just dragged over the OS 9 folders from my software restore CD.
Put em on the "Macintosh HD", pointed Classic to it, and it starts just fine.
Changed the boot volume to be the OS 9 iteration on the "Macintosh HD". Rebooted.
Grey screen again.
Hard powered off. Started up again holding down X to start up OS X again. Changed back to the OS X 10.3 boot.
What the heck is keeping OS 9 from booting??? |
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rugby
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Does OS 9 possess the ability to recognize ATA-6 (drives larger than 138GB) drives without a PCI card?
That may be your problem. |
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acadiel
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| No go. I hooked up the 80GB drive with the old OS9 boot and it still refuses to boot, even off of the old 80GB HDD.
I did drag the OS9General.DMG off of my install CD, I'm going to reformat the 80GB drive, drag the stuff over, and just try to boot off of it. I'm not going to even to try to start Classic, because it updates something in the System folder. |
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acadiel
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| Reformatted the 80GB disk, grabbed the stuff from the OS9General.DMG file and selected that disk as the startup disk.
Grey screen once again.
Also tried holding down OPTION and selecting that disk. Grey screen.
Booting from OS X still works fine though. |
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acadiel
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Bloomington, IL | Update: Removed the two 250GB HDDs from the ATA-100 bus.
Left the 80GB disk on the ATA-66 BUS with just the OS9 files on it.
System booted fine.
Now how the heck do I get OS9 to like those 250GB HDDs (or completely ignore em?) |
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acadiel
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|  Here's the scoop on how this got solved.... 
OS9 cannot support more than 190GB on any partition. So, I had to partition the two drives up into 190GB and 40GB partitions (you use 20GB because of binary versus metric meanings of GB.. lol).
Now, OS9 *will* boot!
Thanks to a person on Apple's message board who informed me about the 190GB limit - Otherwise, I would have been spinning my wheels all day.
»discussions.info.apple.com/webx?···689f8180
Now I just have four hard drives... two 40GB partitions that are now looking for a purpose. Too bad I couldn't raid a partition on a drive with other partitions and drives and make a single drive. |
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