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Will my old SATA drives just fit & work in a new Mac Pro?
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booboo
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Jan 26, 2007, 05:54 AM
 
I have 3 SATA-1 drives, full of data files used in my G5 and various nasty external FireWire cases.

They're all HFS+, originally formatted on a G5 PPC.

Will these just fit and work in a new Mac Pro, read/write without issues ?
     
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Jan 26, 2007, 08:38 AM
 
Yes - I did this a few weeks ago.

You wont be able to use them as a boot drive until you change the Partition scheme to GUID Partition Map - which can only be done with a reformat.
( Last edited by Nivag; Jan 26, 2007 at 08:41 AM. Reason: more info)

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Jan 26, 2007, 12:17 PM
 
Thanks - that's all I needed to know
     
   
 
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