[X4U] Migrate without Firewire link.

[Tim Collier]

On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:

> John;
> 	Just take the drive out of the G5, place into the enclosure,  
> attach to the new Mac, do the migration assistant, re-install the  
> drive back into the G5, job done.
> Russell
>

One thing that nobody has mentioned is the hard drive in the G5 is  
going to be an SATA drive.  I hope the firewire enclosure supports  
SATA and isn't ATA.
And try to remember that bottom posting makes a message flow a lot  
better and you don't have to scroll up and down to see what was said  
first.

Tim
> On Jan 19, 2007, at 3:58 PM, John Erdman wrote:
>
>> The "old" iMac G5 still works just fine except that the Firewire  
>> ports don't work.  I'm passing it on to my wife who doesn't need  
>> or want all the bells and whistles. So I'm not planning to remove  
>> the old drive.
>>
>> I do have an external drive (USB 2) that I can write to. But it's  
>> USB not firewire. I do have a Firewire only enclosure that I could  
>> move the HD to. I.e. write on the HD with USB, move the HD to the  
>> FW enclosure, then
>> connect the migration assistant to the FW drive enclosure.  That  
>> what you had in mind?
>>
>> I could see this work except:
>> The question I'd have is exactly what do I write over to the  
>> external HD (besides the USER folders) ? Which system files should  
>> be included.? Aren't the system files for the MacTel version of OS  
>> X different that the files used by the G5 machines.?
>>
>> John
>>
>>> John;
>>> 	Barrow or buy a firewire enclosure, and use that to do the  
>>> migration assistant [ or if the new Mac supports multiple drives,  
>>> just install the old drive in the new Mac and migrate from there ].
>>>
>>> Russell
>>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:37 PM, John Erdman wrote:
>>>
>>
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