>I'm trying to transfer data from a G4 to an Intel iMac. The G4 has 3 >internal drives. Migration Assistant only sees the first drive on the >first bus. The boot drive is the 3rd drive on the second internal bus. >The first drive has OS 9 on it, and isn't big enough to use for backing >up the boot drive so that the MA can see it. I'd rather not open the G4 >and move the drives. If it were a G5, it would be easy, but it's not. >All drives are set to Cable Select, not Master/Slave.
You don't have to move anything. Just temporarily pull the cable off the drives you want ignored. >I backed up the boot drive to an external FireWire drive and plugged it >into the iMac. Migration assistant only sees two accounts that I deleted >several months ago, and not the one user account that's current. I >assume the deleted accounts are in a preference somewhere, but where? Check the Users directory to confirm that those accounts were completely deleted. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
