From: "Christopher Hightower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My iMac appears to have died. I was told that it is probably the =
processor. If it has indeed seen its last days, is there anyway I could =
retrieve the information from the hard drive (myself). The iMac I am =
speaking of is a G3 333mhz. =20
Sure thing. Just remove the hard drive (instructions for doing so, with pictures, can be found all over the net) and place the drive in a Firewire HD case, then attach said drive to your new machine. Assuming that your diagnosis is right and the hard drive is uncompromised, all your data will be there safe and sound.
One of the coolest things about OS X, I find, is that once you've made a bootable backup of your system (or, as in this case, moved the bootable drive to a portable casing), you can boot that drive from just about ANY Mac that can run OS X -- in effect giving you YOUR os x experience at anybody's machine (and without "messing up" any of their settings).
_Chas_
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