[G4] trying to extract data

[John Baltutis]

On 09/14/04, Valerie Maples" <vlmaples at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> I hope someone here can help me.  My daughter has a Quicksilver G4 that was
> bought for her by Make-A-Wish almost three years ago.  She is terminally ill
> and basically confined to bed, so her computer is her lifeline.  She watches
> many movies a day on it as well as doing her homebound schoolwork.  After
> replacing the hard drive once and the SuperDrive twice and eventually even
> the logic board and processor, Apple has agreed to give her new computer.
> We are extremely grateful, but we are trying to find a way to pull off her
> most recent work from the hard drive.  I don't know if it will be possible
> since the computer will not successfully been to try and plays this hard
> drive in the G3 we have here or if I can even take a second hard drive.  I
> was also wondering if ZIP 250 from this computer can be run in either the
> older G3 or the new G5.
>
> Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated!

Since Apple's sending a new computer, wait until it arrives, and use the
new Setup Assistant feature. See
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25773> for more details.