Cloning mac hdd to new volume?

[zynizen]

Hi there,

I have an intel mac, with my machine installed on a IDE hard drive.
I bought a new SATAII hard drive, to increase the speed a bit.. how do i dupe my hdd to the new mounted HFS Journaled so i can just take out my IDE and boot off the SATA and everything will be identical?

i'm a professional tech on pc's, but the methods ive reseached using disk utility and some other softs, haven't really worked out for me..

i'm fairly new to the mac stuff and want to learn more.. thanks a lot for any help.

on pc, like ghost, acronis, paragon, etc.. work so well.. just looking for some similar method on my new mac ?

thanks

[eric2006]

Have you tried Carbon Copy Cloner?

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

[zynizen]

I have, but it freezes every time. I'm running a new Intel Mac, and the CCC says the Intel UB isnt available yet.

any other ideas?

[eric2006]

If you can get the old drive in an external drive (or internal, with the Mac Pro), OS X's very own Migration Assistant will virtually clone it. Migration Assistant is located in your Utilities folder.

[zynizen]

my drive is currently hooked directly into the motherboard.
so your saying if I just run the migration utility it will clone my ide onto my sata and just like the startup disk it should be?

thanks.

[eric2006]

Not sure if it will work directly connected. It's meant to be used with your old mac in Target Disk Mode, which is basically as a FireWire drive. You can boot up the assistant and see if it'll let you, but you'll probably need an external enclosure (or another Mac). It won't clone your drive per-se, but it copies all your data, preferences, apps, etc, so that everything is exactly where it was on your original setup.

[zynizen]

k, thanks for help so far.

[jbarley]

SuperDuper is the best at cloning in OS X

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/

jb.