Calling all Apple experts... how to transfer the data from the old Hdd to a new one (Imac)?

[adlep]

Is there any program I can use, like Northon Ghost or drive image....
I have very limited options anyway...
I am trying to upgrade my Imac without reformating and reinstalling my OS 9.22.........?

 

[TheOmegaCode]

This is actually a good question. I'm struggling with something similar, I have to take the contents off of an old LC and transfer them to the old Bondi Blue iMac.

Try fishing around in docs.info.apple.com. I found this, which may be of some help to you...

 

[adlep]

hmm i was thinking about it more, and it is very easy to copy the drives... just drag and drop from one hdd to another... but how to connect 2 hdds in I Mac? Physically it is very difficult to do...?

Possible solution includes the following tools:
LAN, Mac and........ Win2K server.... he he
At first boot the mac, then install "Printing and file services for Macintosh" on Win2k server, reboot, create share called Mac Drive in Win2k and make it accessible for Macs..... Create apprioprate permisions for the shared folder, so the Mac users can access it....
Now in OS 9.2 go to chooser, the "Mac Drive" should be available now....
Dump the content of the Mac Hard drive into "Mac Drive".
Disconnect the original hdd, install the new one (tip: 7200 RPM Hdd seems to make a diffrience).
Insert the Mac recovery CD/bootable CD/OS 9 CD into CD drive, boot from the CD (press C).
Initialize the hard drive.
Once again, while running the OS 9 off the CD, go to chooser, select the "Mac Drive", dump the content back onto your new hard drive....Should work
Is there any simpler method?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Firewire?

 

[adlep]

Nope 🙁 🙁
No firewire for me..... Came without the ports....Bummer

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: adlep
Nope 🙁 🙁
No firewire for me..... Came without the ports....Bummer

Open up the case, connect the new hard drive to the cdrom's IDE port... Cross your fingers and try 😛

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: adlep
hmm i was thinking about it more, and it is very easy to copy the drives... just drag and drop from one hdd to another... but how to connect 2 hdds in I Mac? Physically it is very difficult to do...?

Possible solution includes the following tools:
LAN, Mac and........ Win2K server.... he he
At first boot the mac, then install "Printing and file services for Macintosh" on Win2k server, reboot, create share called Mac Drive in Win2k and make it accessible for Macs..... Create apprioprate permisions for the shared folder, so the Mac users can access it....
Now in OS 9.2 go to chooser, the "Mac Drive" should be available now....
Dump the content of the Mac Hard drive into "Mac Drive".
Disconnect the original hdd, install the new one (tip: 7200 RPM Hdd seems to make a diffrience).
Insert the Mac recovery CD/bootable CD/OS 9 CD into CD drive, boot from the CD (press C).
Initialize the hard drive.
Once again, while running the OS 9 off the CD, go to chooser, select the "Mac Drive", dump the content back onto your new hard drive....Should work
Is there any simpler method?

Actaully, Win2k will give you the option to create a mac share. Then just log onto the share, copy over your hard drive. After installing, get you can get your data back. I'm stuck at the point where I can't get the data back, when I try to click and drag the old data over, I get errors 🙁

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

USB external HDD enclosure?

ZIP 250?

I like n0cmonkeys idea the best though... On my G3 desktop, I was able to remove the CD drive and hook up an internal IDE ZIP 100. I was able to get all of my files off the zip and onto the HDD and re-hooked up CD drive no sweat.

 

[adlep]

The IDE port on the CDROM is very properetary (spelling), it has some extra pins in the IDE connector for power......so it is a no go....:-(

Edit:

Actaully, Win2k will give you the option to create a mac share. Then just log onto the share, copy over your hard drive. After installing, get you can get your data back. I'm stuck at the point where I can't get the data back, when I try to click and drag the old data over, I get errors

So you were trying to use my method to copy the hdd, and it gives you an error?
Does it mean that the Mac Share support doesnt really work in Win 2k server?
It is interesting, because I was using this function for a quite some time and it always worked for me....
Maybe it works only with data files...(I stored on it some res edit files, cool mac icons and wallpapers...)
And it really doesnt like the Mac system files....?
It may bitch about OSX too, not sure though yet...
Weird

 

[jhu]

put the drive on a unix-wannabe machine that has hfs driver support and is running ftpd. then just ftp to the you-niks machine and grab the files.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: adlep
The IDE port on the CDROM is very properetary (spelling), it has some extra pins in the IDE connector for power......so it is a no go....:-(

Edit:

Actaully, Win2k will give you the option to create a mac share. Then just log onto the share, copy over your hard drive. After installing, get you can get your data back. I'm stuck at the point where I can't get the data back, when I try to click and drag the old data over, I get errors

So you were trying to use my method to copy the hdd, and it gives you an error?
Does it mean that the Mac Share support doesnt really work in Win 2k server?
It is interesting, because I was using this function for a quite some time and it always worked for me....
Maybe it works only with data files...(I stored on it some res edit files, cool mac icons and wallpapers...)
And it really doesnt like the Mac system files....?
It may bitch about OSX too, not sure though yet...
Weird

Actually I used my method 😛 No, the backup worked fine, it's just that when I went to go copy the files back over, MacOS gave me erros, saying that the files already existed, blah blah... I'm waiting for one of the old people to actually show up to work and pick their brains...