Thanks, Sam. But why on earth have they not included a firewire port on this top of the art laptop (17inch)?
2009/9/29 Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> > Hi Virginia > If you don't have a firewire port you can't use target disk mode. Your best > best is to : > > 1. Boot the old Mac and open up Applications > Utilities > Migration > Assistant > 2. Choose to transfer data *to* another Mac via an ethernet cable > 3. Connect an ethernet cable between the 2 Macs > 4. Open the Migration Assistant on the new Mac and choose to transfer data > *from* another Mac using the ethernet cable > > That should do it. If ethernet fails for some reason you'll need to extract > the hard drive from the old laptop and connect it via a USB to SATA/IDE > bridge (£12 on Amazon). > > Oddly enough, the initial Migration Assistant that runs when you start the > Mac for the first time won't let you migrate from an external USB disk. If > you create a blank user called "test" or any name different to the username > on the old Mac, then run the Migration Assistant as a program it'll allow > you to migrate from an external USB disk. > > This might be different for the Snow Leopard setup Migration Assistant, I > haven't explored it fully yet. > > Sam > [image: MacAmbulance] > providing affordable Apple & PC services > Sam Mullen > 07747 778022 > http://www.macambulance.co.uk > [email protected] > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
