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    External HD needs formatting

    Unfortunately, as I said, I am not that familiar with Mac Disk utility, but I KNOW when you install Windows XP on a disk with multiple partitions (or you create multiple partitions upon install), you format one partition at a time, and I KNOW when you install Ubuntu on a machine without an OS...
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    External HD needs formatting

    I'm new to this and taking a wild guess here, but this is the first thing that popped into my mind. How big is the drive? If it is bigger than say 140GB, then maybe partition the drive and reformat the empty half. Copy files from old half to new half. Then reformat old half? I'm not...
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    Swapping HD from old machine to new(er). Help?

    My issues with this are 1) I'm pretty sure I don't have a firewire cable, and 2) I only have one keyboard and mouse. I was thinking I COULD boot the new system, then unplug the keyboard and put it in the old system, then boot holding "T", then move the keyboard back to the new system, but I...
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    Swapping HD from old machine to new(er). Help?

    Well, I've been doing a bunch of reading online and I THINK I have found a good solution. It looks like I can put the old hard drive in the newer computer set to slave. Then, I should even be able to migrate over all of my Apps and files to the larger drive using Migration Assistant. If that is...
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    Swapping HD from old machine to new(er). Help?

    No one has done this before? :(
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    Swapping HD from old machine to new(er). Help?

    Hello all. I'm new to the forums, but not entirely new to Macs. My wife and I have been using one for several years now, but seeing that we are the only ones in our circle of friends and family, we are hardly experts. We decided to upgrade, and this led me to a question. I was wondering if...
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