View Single Post
colivigan
Veteran Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
 
2009-01-23, 19:51

I have a PM G5 that currently has an 80GB startup drive and a 300GB Seagate SATA internal expansion drive. I just bought a 1TB WD Caviar SATA internal to upgrade my storage. What I would like to do is make the 300GB drive my startup disk, and move all the data that is currently on it to the new 1 TB drive.

I have an external FW drive, and I am right now cloning my startup disk to it using SuperDuper. It's taking kind of a long time. My plan is to then swap the internal drives, boot from the external, copy the 300GB data to the 1 TB drive, and clone the external boot partition back to the 300 GB drive.

So what's the fastest way to copy 200+ GB of data from one disk to another? Data only, it doesn't have to be a startup disk. I don't really want to be up all night doing this.

I am home alone for the weekend, so all options obviously include plenty of beer.
  quote