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New System Folder?

I've just installed a new Hard Drive - painstakingly... after discovering that I can't have two IDE drives in at teh same time
I had to copy everything over to my iMac by ethernet... then try and get it back to the new drive.. but anyway... it's back on the new hard drive now

I've got it set up with two partitions, 500megs and 5.5gigs

At the moment, it's starting up with virtually an empty system folder on the smaller partition... but I can't get it to recognize that the folder called 'System Folder' on the larger partition is what I want to boot from...

Any suggestions anyone?

Cheers

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brian_b

Well, this should be simple.
If the control panel "Startup Disk" is installed, select the larger drive as the startup disk first off. Second, is the system folder on the larger drive blessed? If you drag the system file out of the current system folder on the smaller drive, then double click the system folder on the larger drive, it will do what's called, "Blessing" that folder. You'll be able to tell because the icon on the folder will have the little mac Smile on it. If it isn't blessed, it will look like a regular folder. Basically you can have many system folders as wanted, not advised though, but only one can be "Blessed" and tis done in the way I mentioned. Just drag out system, you'll see it become unblessed, and double click to open and close the one you want active.

brian_b

damnit, you answered the question while I was typing it. heheheh.

brian_b

damnit, you answered the question while I was typing it. heheheh.

dankarran

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Thanks... I whish I could share the points between you both but it won't let me :}

I'll bless it later

As for having two IDE drives... it is an older machine (a clone) and the supplier tells me that I can't have the two going together (plus i've tried it in various configurations)

weed

Ahhh ok the clones are set up different. You can do it with a beige g3 and up though.