system software question

[Green78II]

The hard drive in my beige G3 (running 9.2.2) scanned as having problems. could I get a second hard drive, copy the contents of my G3s drive to it, and expect the new drive to boot? I've done it with floppies before, but I'm curious if there would be any issues doing it with a hard drive.

 

[phreakout]

Just make sure you "bless" the System Folder. Simply opening and closing it will "bless" it. Afterwards, you should see a Mac OS 9 logo thumbnail pic layered in front of the folder icon. This shows successful blessing. Try it and report back how it did well.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

 

[Green78II]

I put the 80GB drive from my postponed tiger project in it. I'm copying the system folder over now. I'll post results in a bit.

 

[Green78II]

I copied it over to the second partition, and it seems to work so far.It also boots about 15 seconds faster. I think I might just keep this drive in the system, and archive the stock drive with my other hard drives after fixing it, blowing it, and re copying everything.

 

[Green78II]

Well, everything is up and running!!! One thing I discovered, is that the Macintosh doesn't like the master jumper on the boot drive. The system is down to 60 seconds even for boot time (from chime to being able to open a program), and opening up programs is much snappier then before. The best part is no scratchy Hard drive noise. Now all I need to do is figure out how to quiet the fan down a bit.