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Migration Assistant for new drive.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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I was going to purchase a new 100GB 7200RPM HDD when Leopard comes out and I was wondering if I could just put a fresh install of Leopard on the new drive, and then use Migration Assistant along with my old 60GB HD in an enclosure to get all my data and prefrences back. Would this work???
Thank you much.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Yes!
• Install the new drive
• Boot from the Leopard DVD, format the new disk
• Install Leopard
• Use MA to copy back the stuff from your old HD
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Migration Assistant didn't work too well for me going from a Powermac G5 Panther to a Macbook C2D Tiger. Although it's a quick/easy process, I'd get the new machine to the same state from scratch, but you will need a couple of hours free!
My problems after MA:
DVD Player dissapeared from App menu,
Lots of PowerPC Apps/Scripts that weren't needed on the new machine,
FCP broke (Prob because no dedicated vid. card though, a re-install sorted things out, not really MA's fault.),
Wireless signal wouldn't authenticate under required encryption, had to remove pref files/refresh keychain for it to give correct opyions again,
Lost the postscript of some fonts (may've just noticed it though),
Generally didn't have that "new" machine vibe going on!
The biggest reason is that I saved over 20gb not using MA and have the exact same setup again (& some).
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2000
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There have been a couple of reports of MA problems when going from a PPC system to Intel. Other than that MA in my experience does a very decent job. Obviously if you want to clean out your system and you have a lot of spare time you can migrate manually.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Alright, so it sounds like I could just get an external enclosure for the old drive. One last question, will I need a firewire enclosure for the old drive. I bet this will be the better choice anyway but I was just wondering if MA would work through USB.
Im not worried about the quirky problems as they seem to be much more frequent between PPC and Intel. THis will be the same machine even so im not worried about that.
Thanks for all the help everyone 
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Sorry for bringing back the dead, but will M.A. work with USB? I cannot find any Firewire400 enclosures for SATA 2.5" drives. Thanks!
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Originally Posted by StickClicks 
Sorry for bringing back the dead, but will M.A. work with USB? I cannot find any Firewire400 enclosures for SATA 2.5" drives. Thanks!
Yes, it works with basically any mounted volume.
In some instances where an customer's computer was dying and had to be sent away, I first made a backup disk image on our server. When the new machine became available, I booted it up and created an initial user because the old machine was PPC and the new was Intel -- couldn't re-image. I then connected it over the network to the server containing the backup, opened the image, and fired up Migration Assistant from the Utilities folder. It offered to let me migrate from the mounted disk image and worked like a charm.
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Awesome, thank you very much!
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