replace harddrive in Powerbook 12"
Hi!
I'm a happy owner of a rev. A 12" Powerbook. Everything works great, but the harddrive begins to make strange noise sometimes. Since I can't afford to loose my work I will replace it before it fails.
I would like to make a straight copy of my drive to the new one.
Therefor I have made a clone of the harddrive to my external Backup drive. Everything seems to be OK. (I have used carbon copy cloner 3 beta to do so). There is only one problem. I can't boot from the, supposedly, bootable clone. Do I have to remove the open firmware password? Or is there anything wrong with my external drive (LC-power firewire)?
Can I simply make a clone to my external harddrive, than boot from it after I changed the internal drive and than clone back?
What strategy would you suggest to speed the process up?
If a clone doesn't work, I will probably make a fresh install and than copy my user folder manually to the new drive.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you
I'm a happy owner of a rev. A 12" Powerbook. Everything works great, but the harddrive begins to make strange noise sometimes. Since I can't afford to loose my work I will replace it before it fails.
I would like to make a straight copy of my drive to the new one.
Therefor I have made a clone of the harddrive to my external Backup drive. Everything seems to be OK. (I have used carbon copy cloner 3 beta to do so). There is only one problem. I can't boot from the, supposedly, bootable clone. Do I have to remove the open firmware password? Or is there anything wrong with my external drive (LC-power firewire)?
Can I simply make a clone to my external harddrive, than boot from it after I changed the internal drive and than clone back?
What strategy would you suggest to speed the process up?
If a clone doesn't work, I will probably make a fresh install and than copy my user folder manually to the new drive.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you
Comments
My Powerbook got really faster. I've put a Hitachi 7200rpm drive in it. It got louder too, but not too much.
Changing the disk is a lot of work, but not difficult. If someone needs help, I can now give some advices.
There is just one thing. I've installed a fresh copy of MacOS and than copied manually the userfolder. Everything works well as expected, and I've not lost data. The onlyu thing that doesen't work are the DNS-servers. I can connect to my VPN network since it has a IP adress, but I can't connect to the DNS servers (that work on other computers here). Any ideas?
I don't understand what you mean by the DNS servers not working. Are you using a static IP address? Or do you have DNS server information in your Network settings? You mention other computers on you network that do work, what are their Network settings?
I believe that it is some permissions problem or something like that, but "repair permissions" hasn't corrected this problem. I will try to delete network preferences and than make new ones.