[G4] Cloning G4 to G5: Naming Hard Drives

James Asherman jimash at optonline.net
Sat Feb 19 17:33:36 PST 2005


On Saturday, February 19, 2005, at 06:54  PM, John Miller wrote:

> James:
>
> Putting my G4 hard drive into the G5 won't work:  The G4 hard drives 
> are ATA.  The new G5's take Serial ATA (SATA) only.  So, cannot use an 
> ATA drive in the G5 (although I understand there are ATA-to-SATA 
> adapters out there...but I don't trust them).
>

OK. So ( I have not done these things) Maybe you can boot the G5 off a 
CD.
(Maybe steal some of that grafx sotware while you're there)
try to get the other machine showing with the firewire.
Then wipe the drive and use CCC, and then start upping your OS.\
J



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