Moving OS X from one drive to another

Ripcord

Ripcord

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When I originally installed Panther, I installed it as a new install on a second disk in my system until I was comfortable that it was going to be stable, that I was migrated to it, etc.

I'm migrated now, and I'd like to move back to the main drive (it's my primary drive, It's much larger and a bit faster).

Does anyone have any advice for doing this? I have no problem trashing the old System, Library, Apps, and Users folder and copying the new ones over to the drive, but I don't believe this will be enough. I'm guessing DiskWarrior will do it, but don't want to buy a copy just to move from one drive to another.

Thanks
 
Well, if you want to simply wipe out the target disk totally and move OS X from the secondary drive to the newly formatted one, then just format it and use Carbon Copy Cloner (available at http://www.versiontracker.com) to "clone" the install to the new drive. It worked perfectly for me in October, and people sing nothing but priase for that utility.
 
I second CCC unless you want to wipe the drive and do a clean install, which is what I would do.
 
Thanks guys, though bob,

Why would you do a clean install? Worried that things might not carry over correctly? I understand why I'd want to do a clean install instead of, say, an upgrade, but I just want to move disks...
 
Okay... So I was moving the files over with Carbon Copy Cloner, and suddenly my system panicked. I had to power off and back on.

Now my "original" hard drive (about 4 months old, came with the computer) isn't mounting during boot. When I try to mount it I just get " " in the console, and when I try to run "Repair disk" I just eventually get

Invalid extent entry
Volume check failed

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)

Same thing after powering off/on. Everything else seems fine, cables are nice and snug, nothing seems to be overheating in any way, and I have a tough time believing that this disk just decided to kick the bucket.

Any ideas?
 
Sounds to me like you need to reformat your hard-drive. You might want to give DiskWarrior or TTP4 a chance first if you have them.
 
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