Transferring an internal drive
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- harlequino
So my G5 of six years died last week, and I had to replace it. All my work work is on external drives, so that's all fine. But I have to get 80gb or so of stuff off the internal of the dead machine.
Someone at the Mac store said I have 2 options, either get a 'sled', or pop the internal drive into another machine and transfer. I'm going to try the latter.
Anyone ever do this before? Is it a big deal to do either?
- doesnotexist0
nope, easy to do. I think you just have to plug it in - maybe make sure it's not the master drive.
- harlequino0
oh goody, thanks!
- Llyod0
hell I could've given you that advice and I don't know anything about macs
- Says the guy who yesterday was asking how gay sex works...Infirm
- hahahahahadoesnotexist
- piitb?Llyod
- dMullins0
I've done the sled method before. It worked fine, and only cost like $80 at the time (5 or so years back when I was in college and my shite iBook died).
- sublocked0
wtf....you've never done this? it's simple as fuck.
* pop the old case
* unscrew / unplug / remove the drive
* pop the new case
* plug in / install / screw in the drivedone!
- chossy0
I did this with my exs computer.
Her Imac broke os I bought a case for the hard drive took it out and now it is a fully functioning external usb 2 drive no problems, with all the data still there as well :D shame she tore my heart out my ass later on.