Clone OS 9 drive under Mavericks?

[Byrd]

Hi all,

A few months ago I installed a "new" IDE HD to my TAM - a 100GB 2.5" 7200RPM drive.  It works, but has always been really slow, I'm suspecting it is on it's way out or there is an incompatibility here.  I have a spare 80GB 2.5" 5400RPM drive (Apple branded Seagate).

All my vintage Macs are in storage at the moment, meaning I only have my Mac Pro available running Mavericks to try to clone the drive to the new one.  Which apps will work - Disk Utility image, CCC, or something else?  Will I be able to install the OS 9 driver somehow when formatting the new drive to HFS+?

Or should I connect the new drive as USB to the TAM, and just get it on 11mbps style copyfest?

Thanks a lot

JB

 

[haplain]

Forget all that 5400/7200 RPM nonsense. CF cards and adapters are so cheap and readily available these days just make the swap. It will be the last thing you repair in your TAM for years to come and no sense in continuing to limp along with old/dying technology. I don't know if it's just me but all those 2.5" drives are failing on me left and right. I bought a 64GB CF card with adapter, shipped, for like 80 bucks. 

Also, thus far, CCC is the best and easiest way to clone older drives. 

 

[Byrd]

Thanks for the tips hap.  I agree, but when you have a stack of large 2.5" IDE hard disks at the ready, I'll keep trying.  My experience with CF hasn't been that glowing, I've found performance to be OK sometimes but sorely lacking in others.  But, when I have the cash I'll try a good quality CF card one day.