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Transfer HD contents to new Mac
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deedar
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May 26, 2004, 08:23 AM
 
How do I go about transferring the HD (40 gig) contents of my current Mac (DVSE 400)to my "new" PowerMac G4 (dual 1.25ghz, blah, blah, blah) without having to burn a gazilion cds?
     
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May 26, 2004, 08:29 AM
 
Firewire cable, boot your older computer as a firewire disk using CMD-T?
     
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May 26, 2004, 08:31 AM
 
Carbon Copy Cloner.

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May 26, 2004, 09:45 AM
 
This sort of question has been answered many times... do a search...
     
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May 27, 2004, 03:58 PM
 
Burning CDs would be my LAST approach. At the least you should be able to plug in an ethernet cable between them and transfer at 100M. I believe all new Macs are auto-sensing - but I may be wrong.
     
   
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