<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Unfortunately, I don't think so, as long as we're talking about your boot volume. Last I dealt with this, Intel machines use a different partition map system than PPC systems. You can use the same DISK from an old system, but you'd have to reformat it / repartition it first :-)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, I do think that you can do a clone-and-copy from PPC to Intel...but your System installation will be PPC, so you'd have to reinstall OSX (Intel) anyways.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 13, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On several occasions I have migrated to newer machines simply by removing the HD containing OS X from the old machine and installing it into the new(er) machine. All have been PPCs.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">What advantage is there in using Migration Assistant (which I have never used)?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">There'll come a time when I am moving from PPC to Intel Mac. Would a system HD transplant work in that situation?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>