Migration Assitance (two drives each machine)

[jordesign]

10.4.11

I have two drives in my old G4...One for Apps and one for storage...The new (to me) G5 tower also has two drives that I intend to set up the same way...Migration assistance does not give me options to migrate both drives...only the one bootable drive...and it also does not give me a choice as to the destination drive.

Any work arounds here?

I did try CCC, but even with a firewire cable, it did not recognize the computer as a drive...only an external drive???

 

[louishen]

The apps one, is that the boot drive?

you can transfer your apps and settings over with Migration Assistant

If the second drive is the storage one, unfortunately the G5 has no PATA bus, so you will have to connect them with Ethernet, or put that second drive in an enclosure to move data (unless you want to shuttle over the data on a USB stick)

 

[jordesign]

Yes, the apps drive is also the boot drive...(although I have a few apps on my storage drive as well)....I was able to easily migrate from one boot drive to the other....Not sure if it kept all of my preferences or not. Some seem to be missing...

Regarding the larger storage drives: What is the best way to move a approx 100 gigs from one storage hard drive to another? CCC does not allow me to choose the second drive on the new mac as a destination disc...the boot drive is not large enough to accept all of the storage data...Do I try to Stuff that much info? and just drag it across the network?

I have a Firewire cable, and an ethernet network connected...

 

[louishen]

CCC does not allow me to choose the second drive on the new mac as a destination disc....

what do you mean by CCC?

Can the old G4 see the G5's second drive over ethernet?

 

[jordesign]

OK. I FINALLY GOT IT... CCC is Carbon Copy Cloner.
All I had to do was to start the new Mac in Target Mode and both drives showed up as FireWire drives, then I could use CCC to clone each drive to the new computer. Worked like a charm, albeit a very time consuming charm...