Migration Assistant

[cobrien79]

Hello,
Just very recently I used Migration Assistant to transfer every single piece of data from one internal drive to another, G4 Tower 450Mhz, 512MB RAM 32MB Graphics. I actually purchased 2 new 80GB drives for this machine and installed one at a time. using Tiger it worked like a Gem.

Thing is I also have a very high end machine, Mac Pro 2x3.2 Quad Core Xeon, 16GB RAM, 1.5GB Graphics all the bells and whistles etc, running Leopard Server. I also have 4x1TB internal drives. What I want to do is transfer all my user accounts and data etc to one of my spare internal drives, but Migration Assistant does not see or read any of the internal drives?

Can someone please advise what I can do to complete this? I just think it's a bit crazy that I can do it using a Mac that's almost 10 years old (The G4) but not on a new machine that I purchased in January?

I'm not sure if it's to do with the drives in the Mac Pro are SATA and the ones in the G4 were IDE? or is it a software issue? or maybe the way the drives are formatted?

I have 2 of the Internal Drives formatted as Extended Journaled, the other 2 are running XP and Vista Ultimate, all on the Mac Pro.

The only reason why I want to use Migration is because it went so smoothly with Tiger on the G4 and the data was all transferred without any problems in a short period of time, so I wanted to apply this to my new machine... so far... nada!

 

[louishen]

I think migtration assistant will look for the main internal drive on your G4, if you connect the G4 to the Mac Pro using firewire

Are all the user accounts on the G4s startup drive, or on secondary drives?

 

[Noels]

I thought Migration Assistant was to move files from one machine to another? If both drives are on the same machine, you should be able to copy (transfer) directly between hard drives.

I have a Macbook, therefore only one hard drive, but can't you see both of your hard drives in Finder under Devices? If so, just open the drive where your files are, select (highlight) the files you want to copy, then select the other hard drive and control-click or right click where you want them to go and select paste. Should do it... If there are different places to paste to, you may need to do this in several steps.

Am I understanding you correctly? Maybe it's something else you want to do...

Noel

 

[cobrien79]

Thanks Noels & Louishen,
I was only using the G4 as my example.
the data I wish to move is from one of the internal drives on the Mac Pro to the other internal drive, I installed Leopard Server on both Drives.

All drives read just fine and work just fine when I use the Mac Pro.

It's only when it comes to using Migration that there is a hitch.

As I have already done it using Tiger on a G4 with 2 internal drives, I wanted to do the same with my Mac Pro.

I can I suppose just copy all the data across by drag and dropping, but I don;t see the point when Migration is there for that purpose.

I have 6 user accounts, photos, movies, music, personal and business files that I want to transfer over, shouldn't Migration be able to do all that for me on the Mac Pro using Leopard Server like it did on the G4 using Tiger?

Migration will see the external drives I have connected via USB 2.0 and firewire 800 no bother but won't recognise a single Internal drive where the G4 did?

any ideas lads?

the internal drives are SATA, here are the full specs.
Cheers!

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz