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[David Minton <david AT designhammer.com>]

I did something similar upgrading a beige G3 a few years back. It had two
IDE busses that could only handle one device each (instead of two). I
unplugged the CD-ROM drive from the second bus, and plugged in the new
drive, long enough to transfer my files. When I was done, I switched the
hard drives, and replaced the CD-ROM drive--QED.

David

On 12/11/02 5:55 PM, "zman" <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com> wrote:

> That actually sounds like the simple way. Though just to reiterate "you
> can not just copy OSX from one drive to the other".
> 
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Joe Reid wrote:
> 
>> Dan Caugherty wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey all --
>>> 
>>> I have a slight dilemma here.  I have a 20 GB drive in
>>> my Apple G4 Cube, and I'd like to upgrade it to an 80 GB
>>> I have lying around here.  But alas, the Cube has but
>>> one drive bay.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> All suggestions welcome..
>> 
>> 
>> If the long term intention is to only use one drive why does the
>> transition period mean the case has to be assembled?
>> 
>> Think outside the box...literally.  Open it up, get appropiate cables to
>> cable up both drives with the case open, get the work done, and unplug
>> the 20gb and go along your merry way.
>> 
>>