Migrating data from a MDD to a G5

messiahmessiah
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I have four 80GB drives that were previously in my MDD G4. Two of the drives were configured as RAID level 0.



How do I get the data off these IDE drives and onto the G5's SATA drive?



The only thing I can think off is to install these IDE drives into an external FireWire case and migrate the data manually...



... but I don't know how I'll do that with the co-dependent RAID drives?



Any bright ideas?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,180member
    still got both computers ?? .... get a Cat5 network cable ... ethernet is sooo 90's, but it still works !
  • Reply 2 of 5
    messiahmessiah Posts: 1,689member
    No, unfortunately, just the G5.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,180member
    find a friend with a machine that has an empty IDE bay (or 2, i guess) and that might still be the easiest/cheapest way to do it!
  • Reply 4 of 5
    dobbydobby Posts: 797member
    Can't you hook up your older ata drives to the cd drive bus?

    Does the G5 cdrom also use a new ide/ata interface?



    Dobby.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    trailmaster308trailmaster308 Posts: 699member
    When I sent me iBook into apple care; I turned my ibook off, hooked up a firewire cable between the ibook and my imac. Then turned the ibook on while holding down the "t" key. It mounted a disk on the desktop and I could just drag my files over. Don't know if it will work on raid 0. May have to break the raid, but I don't think it should matter if your moving you data. Anyway, its way way faster than ethernet.





    Oops nevermind. I see that you don't have the G4 anymore. Sorry.
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