Re: Dad upgrade - clone Mac OS9 disk

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<1j8ease.jy5uom12jjutlN%real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

David Sankey <David.Sankey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(David Empson) wrote:

<good stuff snipped>

Right, I've printed that off and will keep it ready for when I get the
new iMac.

I've quickly read though it and it all seems to make sense and
wouldn't have considered all the variable / steps so thanks.

I'm not convinced that this was the best sense...

Nor me.

My recollection was that the recommended way was a 'top-level' copy,
namely dragging the disk icon of the source disk on the desktop onto the
icon for the destination disk.

I recall doing similar stuff.

Leastways I remember doing this and it's certainly not something that
you'd do on Mac OS X!

But there are Mac OS 9 users lurking in this NG, maybe one of them will
confirm one way or the other?

If I could be bothered, I'd fire up an old Mac or two and check.

I tried that a few weeks ago, someone having turned up with a stack of
Mac formatted Zip disks.

But my old IIvx now seems dead in the water (they do still boot with a
flat battery, don't they?). Got bored before I dug out my Quadra 840av
instead.

Kind regards,

Dave
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