[X4U] New Mac Upgrade

[Neil Laubenthal]

Yup . . .any drive with a bootable OS X on it can be migrated from.




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neil


On Oct 18, 2006, at 15:06, John Belen wrote:

> Aha!!  But therein lies the twist!!
>
> The reason that I am upgrading is because the Firewire port on my  
> Titanium is burned out, hence no Target mode.  Now! That being  
> said, I DO have an external enclosure that I can toss my Titanium  
> harddrive into.  Will Migration Assistant work if I stick my drive  
> in an enclosure?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Linda wrote:
>
>> On 10/18/06 1:51 PM, John Belen wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone actually USED Migration Assistant? How well does it work?
>>
>> I witnessed a G4 Quicksilver user who migrated to a Mac Book Pro  
>> in less than 15 minutes. The user had all of her data in her user  
>> folder, so there wasn’t any poking around the hard disk to find  
>> stuff later, though. When she finished registering the MBP (the  
>> Migration Assistant question comes up before the actual  
>> registration), her user was intact and her desktop was identical  
>> to the one she’d had on the Quicksilver G4. It was a flawless  
>> process — right down to instructions about the Firewire cable,  
>> when to reboot, holding down the T key, the whole process. I  
>> walked away extremely impressed.
>>
>> ~Linda
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