Clone iMac G3 Hard Drive

[SGockel007]

Hi,

We have an old iMac G3 (very very old) it is teal and has a slot loading cd drive. It has a 233 mHz processor, 160 MB RAM and a 4 GB hard drive. We are planning on giving this computer away, but, before we erase the drive, I want to make an exact duplicate of it (perhaps as a disk image or on another physical drive.) The G3 has no firewire ports (only USB) but I can access it through the filesharing LAN. I tried using disk utility on another mac on the network to "create a new disk image from folder" and selecting the hard drive for the G3 on the network. It failed giving me a permissions error.

Any clue how to clone this drive? A disk image is a preferable method, but I am willing to spend money on an external drive if necessary.

I tried this and it didn't work:
http://www.macinstruct.com/node/91

Thanks,
Sam

 

[djackmac]

My preferred method is pull the drive and put it in a 3.5" IDE external case.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner, which will give you a complete, bootable backup that can be stored as a disk image.

Various versions are available depending on which version of OS X you're using.

 

[SGockel007]

I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner, which will give you a complete, bootable backup that can be stored as a disk image.

Various versions are available depending on which version of OS X you're using.

I was finally able to clone the drive with an older version of Carbon Copy Cloner. I now have a nice disk image of the old G3!