how do you clone a hard drive?

i want to transfer the info i have in my G5 from one computer to another. how do you "clone" a hard drive? do i use disk utility? etc.

thanks in advance

[Solar]

Just google my man!

Backup software for data backup and disaster recovery in Windows and Linux - Acronis

PARAGON Software Group - Drive Backup, Partition Manager, system recovery solutions

Thats a very good start and those software nce installed, tehy have a wizard that show you step by step how to achieve you HD Clone

Enjoy

i found this useful link

http://www.macinstruct.com/node/147

[warhead]

I always find the original drive to sound somewhat warmer...they just never nail those clones!



























Oh come on, somebody had to!

War

[drBill]

For Mac OSX, you want Carbon Copy Cloner:

Here you go.

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


And......it's free to boot.

You're welcome.

Cheers,

Bill

[RecTeach]

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First make sure it is a high end hard drive... then look for a high end program to back it up but only to another high end drive.



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[big country]

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[gsilbers]

Originally Posted by RecTeach

<:turning on smart ass mode:>


First make sure it is a high end hard drive... then look for a high end program to back it up but only to another high end drive.



<:turning off smart ass mode:>

haaaaahahaaa

[Will]

if you use ccc you'll have to boot on to another drive to image your system drive. You can just use disk utility to 'restore' your system drive to another disk without having to boot from another start up volume. Just go into disk utility and select the restore tab, then select your system drive as source and your new drive as destination.

Will.