Transfering my Hard drive to a new hard drive. How???

sandrinesandrine
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
Hi there.



I need to know how to transfer the hard drive of Mac OS X v. 10.2.8 (processor 500 mhz, Model power Pc G3, Memory 640, Number processor 1) to a Mac OS X v. 10.3.5 (processor 2GHz DDR SDRAM, Model Power Mac G5, Memory 512, Number processor 2).



Can you help me????

This is the first time that i am using a forum and hope that all the info you need is here.



Sandrine

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    timotimo Posts: 353member
    You'll need a firewire cable.



    Just follow the directions here:

    http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/...etonewmac.html
  • Reply 2 of 5
    sandrinesandrine Posts: 5member
    Timo thanks for that.

    Just checked the site and looks easy.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    kedakeda Posts: 722member
    Can this be done on Macs w/ non-built-in FW?



    I have a beige that is slowly dying.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    To transfer data, yes, with both machines booted.



    To boot the older one in target disk mode for 100% safe transfer of system prefs, etc, no.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    digitaldavedigitaldave Posts: 445member
    Using the Setup Assistant, will this transfer over things like iTunes library (and de-authorize the old Mac and authorize the new one) and iPhoto library?



    Dave.
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