I recently got my first Intel Mac (Core Duo iMac) and I love it.. but I'll be honest.. I REALLY wanna get me one of these G4 minis.. I love this design. Great video!
this is dull, you don't need to instal osx in the other drive, just go to disc utility and restore the external drive from your current harddrive, it's going to be bootable and everything should be on it's place
Great video...thanks! If you're running Leopard, I think you could restore the entire system to the new drive from a Time Machine disk. I haven't tried this though.
Time Machine is a great idea whose implementation is, uhh, in need of improvement. (The same is true of Time Capsule hardware.)
The only time I ever tried it (back around 10.5.2 or .3) with a Mac OS X Leopard server, it simply Did Not Work and I finally decided that I could do better things with my life than mess with it for hours and hours.
are you running an older mac os on that mini? its bringing back memories of my power book 140 (black and white). thanks for the video, its gonna help me when i eventually get a mini! 5*
ilike my pc upgrade put the new master in reboot with the old drive as a slave run the seagate disk clone software select clone wait till its done and remove cd reboot and ya done up and running with all files from old drive on the new one:)
Yep, it's pretty much the same thing, although the Mac OS includes almost everything you need to do the job. (It would have everything you needed if Apple Disk Utility could restore a disk image to a drive. Every time I've tried, though, it produces an error.)
That is odd, when you consider that Carbon Copy Cloner uses the same underlying tool as Disk Utility. (This tool is known as asr, for Apple Software Restore.)
@uxwbill what u have to do is varify the immage u want to backup with then u can restore the immage to a drive of your choosing. i have done that to make installer hard drives for computers
One system I have had success using when donig hard drive upgrades is putting both drives in the computer, starting a windows install (to get a booatloader) then booting into linux.
Do a cp -rf *.* [new drive] and it copies the contents of the old drive to the new drive. Works well but can take a long time when you have a lot of small files.
Lol, that old screen! In combination with a new Mac mini...
gabele19 11 months ago
@gabele19 It works (after the main filter caps were replaced) and it's paid for. What else could you want? :-)
uxwbill 11 months ago
I recently got my first Intel Mac (Core Duo iMac) and I love it.. but I'll be honest.. I REALLY wanna get me one of these G4 minis.. I love this design. Great video!
mlthomp1981 1 year ago
That model will take OSX 10.5
JDMowerGuy1998 1 year ago
Where did you buy your new hard drive? thanks!
laxplayer1199 1 year ago
@laxplayer1199 Other World Computing. They have always provided top notch service.
uxwbill 1 year ago
i personally like PCs better....great tutorial!
Dell0304 1 year ago
You use the computer that works for you. I use both about equally.
uxwbill 1 year ago
this is dull, you don't need to instal osx in the other drive, just go to disc utility and restore the external drive from your current harddrive, it's going to be bootable and everything should be on it's place
maudeleon 2 years ago
Nice vid, the mac mini has a built in speaker?
santoro2020 2 years ago
yes, it does have one. actually its pretty good.
beavisPDBSK 2 years ago
Great video...thanks! If you're running Leopard, I think you could restore the entire system to the new drive from a Time Machine disk. I haven't tried this though.
swelles99 2 years ago
Time Machine is a great idea whose implementation is, uhh, in need of improvement. (The same is true of Time Capsule hardware.)
The only time I ever tried it (back around 10.5.2 or .3) with a Mac OS X Leopard server, it simply Did Not Work and I finally decided that I could do better things with my life than mess with it for hours and hours.
uxwbill 2 years ago
are you running an older mac os on that mini? its bringing back memories of my power book 140 (black and white). thanks for the video, its gonna help me when i eventually get a mini! 5*
Sephy69 2 years ago
Mac OS X 10.4.11
I have spare licenses left over in my Leopard Family Pack, but this machine is Not Broken and therefore probably won't get "fixed".
uxwbill 2 years ago
eww mac
Windows7Videos 2 years ago
Please don't do that. (It appears you *have* a Macintosh of some kind anyway.) Don't like, don't watch. :-)
uxwbill 2 years ago
100% agreed, got my powermac G4 and could not be happier. I don't see how anyone could hate them.
NotARealUTubeAccount 2 years ago
ilike my pc upgrade put the new master in reboot with the old drive as a slave run the seagate disk clone software select clone wait till its done and remove cd reboot and ya done up and running with all files from old drive on the new one:)
itscool1968 2 years ago
Yep, it's pretty much the same thing, although the Mac OS includes almost everything you need to do the job. (It would have everything you needed if Apple Disk Utility could restore a disk image to a drive. Every time I've tried, though, it produces an error.)
That is odd, when you consider that Carbon Copy Cloner uses the same underlying tool as Disk Utility. (This tool is known as asr, for Apple Software Restore.)
uxwbill 2 years ago
@uxwbill what u have to do is varify the immage u want to backup with then u can restore the immage to a drive of your choosing. i have done that to make installer hard drives for computers
rmx77 7 months ago
One system I have had success using when donig hard drive upgrades is putting both drives in the computer, starting a windows install (to get a booatloader) then booting into linux.
Do a cp -rf *.* [new drive] and it copies the contents of the old drive to the new drive. Works well but can take a long time when you have a lot of small files.
Righty736 2 years ago