Migrating OSX to new drive

May 16, 2003

I bought a bigger hard drive for my PowerBook G3. I'm wondering what the best method is for migrating my old hard drive to the new one.

Should I try to migrate the OS, or just install from scratch on the new drive?

If a new install, should I try to migrate my home folder, or just move important documents from the old hard drive to the new one?

Are there particular tools that make this task easier? I've ruled out Carbon Copy Cloner because there are too many reports in the forums about people having problems... aliases still pointing back to the source drive (ie: backup, not clone), and possibly problems with 10.2.6.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance!