<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Howard and Charles;<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you both for your excellent advice and help. It went flawlessly. A few apps needed to be reinstalled, but that was mainly because, as far as I can tell, they were PPC only. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Do either of you know how to create a disk image of the old hard drive? I recall there was a way to have a condensed version of your entire disk as back-up.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks again.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mark</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 27, 2006, at 6:45 AM, <A href="mailto:charlesp@ksu.edu">charlesp@ksu.edu</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P><FONT size="2">Quoting <A href="mailto:gooddog@interlync.com">gooddog@interlync.com</A>:</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">> Thank you, Howard. This sounds workable. I'll follow the leads as you</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> say. I have the proper FireWire, so I'm half the way there equipment</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> wise.</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">></FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> I found some Apple paperwork just a while ago entitled "Transferring</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> Information from Your Previous Computer", and they discuss something</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> very similar that occurs while using the Setup Assistant.</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">></FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">> I appreciate your help.</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">Let me chime in and reinforce using the Migration Assistant. I have used</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">it on at least four occasions and have found it nearly flawless. </FONT></P><P><FONT size="2">When I say that it is nearly flawless, I've found that some apps want a</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">serial number (maybe one or two out of hundreds), and some things may</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">not show up, so make sure everything is running on the new machine</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">before wiping the old one.</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">It is, however, the easiest and best way to go from one machine to</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">another. I used it just last week to go from one partition on my G5 to</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">another and it worked wonderfully.</FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">Charles Pearce (<A href="mailto:charlesp@ksu.edu">charlesp@ksu.edu</A>)</FONT> <BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2"></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>