| More info about OS on the Mac etc...
Hi Satcomer,
Many thanks for your reply. To give you a bit more info the OS on the Mac is OS 9, and like you said, I was expecting that by using Transmac I could just copy the system and files across to the new drive and it would all work OK. By the way when I formatted the drive I used the default setting which was Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and I made sure that I copied all the files on the old disk including the hidden ones.
I was wondering if maybe one of the following things I had/hadn't done had been wrong:
1. Should I have used Disk Utility before I formatted the drive using Transmac as I'm guessing the Disk Utility program is the equivalent of FDisk on a PC?
2. By transfering files from the original IMac hard drive to my PC and then onto the new 120GB IMac hard drive, did the files get corrupted and that's why the IMac can't read the new drive when I put it in?
3. The IMac "BIOS" can't recognise a hard disk of 120GB and I need to use a smaller one - say 80GB?
I will definitely try using the Carbon Copy Cloner (I'm guessing it is like Norton Ghost) to try and transfer the files over again, but it's looking more and more likely that the easiest (and slowest!) way to solve this issue is to stick the drive in a caddy and do the job that way....
Many thanks again,
Phil  |