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Old 10-11-2006, 01:42 PM
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Default Swapping Sys Drive to new computer
Hi,
Am I asking for trouble if I take the sys drive from G5 2.5 Dual and pop it into G5Quad PPC?
Contains PT7/Logic/etc.

thanks for any info

Mel
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Old 10-11-2006, 02:45 PM
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Might work as long as both are PPC and same OS version. The Quad will not run on an OS that's older than it is.

Other than that, your best option might be to use the Apple Migration Assistant and connect to the G5 in Firewire Target Disk mode. Have not done it personally but others (non-audio) have with success.

If Migration Assistant doesn't work, welcome to the purgatory of re-installing everything. Possibly better cleaner results that way anyway-- that's what I've been doing for several days...

Scott
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Old 10-11-2006, 02:51 PM
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Migration Assistant is great. just don't use a bad Firewire cable
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Old 10-11-2006, 07:05 PM
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Migration Assistant is great. just don't use a bad Firewire cable
I beg to differ. I had issues with migration assistant. A better option, in my opinion is to use the rsync command in the Terminal. That process has a few things to look out for, but it does work.
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