Old Harddrive Backup (HFS non plus)

[garehard]

Good morning,

any chance to backup an old 2 GB HFS (not plus) HDD (IDE 44pin-Laptop) with Mac OS 7.6 installed to a new one?

The oldest Mac I have is a Powermac G4, maybe with a 44pin to 48pin Adapter it should work?
Do you have any backup-software recommendations?
On the G4 I have installed 9.2.2 and 10.4.9 (Tiger)

Thank you

 

[robin-fo]

If you can successfully mount the HD on your G4, you can use Disc Copy on Mac OS 9 or Disk Utility on Tiger and create an Image of the drive.

 

[Phipli]

If you make sure there are no files on the desktop, the easiest way to migrate to a new disk is just to copy the files. If you can connect it to the G4, just drag the disk onto the G4s disk to create a folder with the disk's files. Then connect the new drive, format it as HFS, and drag the files back onto it. You might need to not copy the folder called "desktop folder".

A tiny number of applications don't work after doing this, but they're so few in number I doubt you have any.