Disk Superduper

I run disk warrior, which shows the drive to be fine, I run permissions repair and disk repair from the the disk utility, which show no real problems, just the usual minor stuff. ...

FWIW, and AFAIK, another way to migrate is to make an exact copy to a Firewire disk using SuperDuper. SuperDuper will allow you to make an exact copy of your disk that works well in its demo mode. ...

This is going to be and hard at the same time. First thing to do is get a Firewire External hard disk (as big as your current internal). Then backyup (Clone=bootable : Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper) and backup your current setup. Then buy your new internal hard disk (like these) and get some tools (like this). Also foolow the site pictures at here and see the video...

so I cloned it with superduper and I've switched the old hard disk with he new one. ...

DOS File System' with Mac OS 10.4.11. But Disk Utility failed in 3 seconds, and gives an error. ...

s disk utility can do RAID can't it? ...

Then boot he fail Mac while holding down the T button during the boot. This will boot the mac into FireWire Disk mode and it will act like an external firewire drive. ...

in case the first one died. I tried to run Disk Utility, Onyx, and Disk Warrior on the original hard drive, but all reported hard drive errors that were not repairable. ...

Also, the manufacturer of external FireWire device, its model number, and the manufacturer and model number of the actual hard disk drive, should have been provided. ...

permissions and ACL's. Any way, the solution I believe is a clean install. Might boot your machine in target disk mode if you need to get files off of it first. ...