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- Dec 22, 2005
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- Your Mac's Specs
- 17" iMac G5
We have an iMac G5 that we bought new about 6 years ago. It finally gave up the ghost over the weekend. When turned on, I get a solid LED light, no "chime", and a black screen. After a minute or two the fans kick on high. That's all it does.
We happened to be heading up to the Mall of America over the weekend so I made an appointment at the apple store up there. I believe the "genius" told me it was the logic board, a $900 fix. Obviously this old mac isn't worth that, so a new one is most likely in our future.
What I want to know, is if there is a way to remove the HD on my G5 and then transfer that information to the new mac once purchased. We have a lot of pictures, music, financial records, etc on the old one I want.
I found the insturctions on apple's support page for removing the hard drive, but from there I would have no idea how to hook this thing up to the new one and transfer data. The "genius" told me this could be done in the store for their $99 1:1 program fee.
Thank you,
JW
We happened to be heading up to the Mall of America over the weekend so I made an appointment at the apple store up there. I believe the "genius" told me it was the logic board, a $900 fix. Obviously this old mac isn't worth that, so a new one is most likely in our future.
What I want to know, is if there is a way to remove the HD on my G5 and then transfer that information to the new mac once purchased. We have a lot of pictures, music, financial records, etc on the old one I want.
I found the insturctions on apple's support page for removing the hard drive, but from there I would have no idea how to hook this thing up to the new one and transfer data. The "genius" told me this could be done in the store for their $99 1:1 program fee.
Thank you,
JW