If you have a 12″ or 14″ PowerBook with a 40 Gigabyte hard drive (or less), and if you use your computer intensively, the chances are that you’re struggling with drive space. What with photos, mp3 files, movies, and increasingly gigundous apps, the 40 Gig that seemed so roomy 18 months ago is starting to feel pretty tight in the crotch.
I feel your pain. And in this page, I’m going to tell you what I did when I had the same pain, in the hopes that it might help you relieve yours.
The overall steps are pretty simple:
- Get a new drive, 60 or 80 Gig.
- Get a firewire enclosure.
- Install the new drive in your machine.
- Install your old drive in your new exterior case.
- Boot from your old drive.
- Transfer your old system from the firewire drive to the new internal drive.
Now, not only do you have much expanded breathing room on your old drive, but you have a tiny little firewire exterior drive that you can use for backup or as an emergency boot disk.
In the rest of the article, I’ll provide detailed notes regarding how I did all that.
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