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Boot new PMac 1.25 with harddrive of old machine?
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: HH, Germany
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Hello!
Today I received my new PowerMac Dual 1.25 and I thought it would be simple to move my working environment to the new machine.
I took my harddrive out of my PowerMac Dual 1 Gz and put it into the new Machine. But that does not seem to work.
I can select the old harddisk as my startup drive but the machine does alway boot from a second drive where I installed a completely new sytem.
However, I want to boot from my old drive because it takes just too much time to setup all the stuff that I need on the new machine.
Does anybody have an idea on how to solve this problem?
I think it relates to the "not able to boot OS 9 feature" of the new machines - but I don't want to boot into 9. There isn't even a 9 system on any of my drives, there is only X.
Thanks for your help!
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Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Switzerland
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Can you even get the old drive to show up on the new machine?
Marc
(Are all the jumper setting correct on the drives? I can imagine it would cause a problem, but you never know...)
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by cmittendorf:
Hello!
Today I received my new PowerMac Dual 1.25 and I thought it would be simple to move my working environment to the new machine.
I took my harddrive out of my PowerMac Dual 1 Gz and put it into the new Machine. But that does not seem to work.
I can select the old harddisk as my startup drive but the machine does alway boot from a second drive where I installed a completely new sytem.
However, I want to boot from my old drive because it takes just too much time to setup all the stuff that I need on the new machine.
Does anybody have an idea on how to solve this problem?
I think it relates to the "not able to boot OS 9 feature" of the new machines - but I don't want to boot into 9. There isn't even a 9 system on any of my drives, there is only X.
Thanks for your help!
It may be that this is impossible. Recall the new machines can't boot into OS 9 -- some things have changed in the ROM to make it so. Does your old HD have OS 9 and OS X on it? Perhaps the Mac is getting cranky.
I mean the System, etc. is all on there, and there are a lot of drivers which could well not work on a newer machine.
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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What version of the OS do you have on your old hard drive that you are trying to boot? The new FW800 machines shipped with a version of 10.2.3 that was a later build than the updater that was released to everyone else. And it won't boot off of anything older (ie the retail copy of Jag.)
So, make sure that you have at least upgraded to 10.2.4 on the drive you are trying to boot.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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I ran the most recent release of 10.2.4. But I think that those new FW800 was not installed properly
I therefore copied a couple of folders (Extensions,...) from the new system to my old drive using ditto. Now its working. I also blessed my folder. Maybe that was the kick necessary. Anyway, it works again and the new machine feels just fine ;-)
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