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sfinds · Nov 20, 2006, 12:40 PM

Will I be able to use items stored on my LaCie external hard drive? I presently use an iMac 400 DVD ... the CD/DVD basically does't work any more. IE is a real problem, and my OS was upgraded to 9.2.2. Thought it might be better to up grade to a new iMac at this time. What I primarily want to keep is all my banking records, income tax, photos and genealogy records that are stored on this external hard drive.

Thanks for any input. And I am not computer literate so please keep that in mind!

Big Mac · Nov 20, 2006, 12:58 PM

Sure you'll be able to use your external drive and the files it contains.

sfinds · Nov 20, 2006, 01:09 PM

Thanks...someone told me that I would need all new applications (no support for Classic OS 9) on the new iMac which I undestand but wondered about the old stuff on the external hard drive.

JoeDokes · Nov 20, 2006, 06:40 PM

Before you casually assume your data will transfer, bear in mind that to use your data once on the new machine you will have to have an OS X program that can access and use the files. Turbo Tax, for example, wouldn't/couldn't open the files created under the OS 9 version of the program. So check to see what will work and what won't. Word processing is likely not a problem but the more unique the program the greater the risk that you will have unusable data.

- JD