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Hi there,

I just went through this two days ago.

First off, the best way to make this transfer is to take your old drive 
out and put the new drive in.  Then format the new drive on the 
computer booting from the first of the two OS X install CD's.  When it 
comes up with the installer dialog, choose "Drive Setup"?? from the 
install menu.  Actually I can't remember if it is "Setup" but you can't 
miss it.  It's the only option that says "Drive".  Use the format 
feature to reformat the new drive.

Now, put your old drive in an external case (you can get a firewire 
case from OWC or DevDepot for about $50).  Shut down and re-boot the 
computer holding down the option key.  Choose the old OS X on the 
external drive as the boot system and continue the boot process.  When 
you are up and running transfer all the old drive files to the new one. 
  You should be able to just drag and drop, although I seem to have 
better success using Retrospect and the Duplicate drive feature.

Anyhow, shut down, and reboot normally with the external drive 
disconnected and you should boot up on your new drive.

The external case seems like a real pain in the butt but it is the best 
way to go, and the only way I could get it all to work, and you end up 
with your old drive in an external case as a spare firewire drive 
instead of just throwing it away.

Below is a link to a PDF on the Apple site explaining how to do the 
physical change.

http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/index.html

Just choose your machine, and then choose hard drive replacement in the 
language of your choice and off you go.

Good luck,

GH

On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 12:49  AM, logic-ot@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:

> Subject: drivers for a TiBook hard drive replacement?
>
> anyone suggest certain hard drive drivers to be used with a TiBook 
> 500MHZ
> machine? (for dropping in a new (and faster) hard drive?)  any place 
> to find
> online where it shows how to swap them out and how to give them the 
> best
> situation/operating status to give you the best audio performance?
>
> many thanks,
> tv