Ann, Now I may have overstepped my level of Mac proficiency, that level being about one millimeter high. My lampshade will power up, but it won't open any application; all I get is a pale blue screen. My firewire line runs from one of the two firewire slots on the lampshade to the firewire slot on the new Mac (it has two firewire slots, but they apparently require different size plugs). Then I hold down the "T" key on the lampshade keyboard while holding down the power key on the lampshade. It takes a while, but eventually the lampshade shows a pale blue screen with the firewire icon moving around on the screen. At the same time, the firewire icon appears on the desktop of the new computer. Clicking on it will open the lampshade HD (on the new computer) and you can do whatever you want with it, just as if it were installed on the new Mac.
After reviewing previous posts on this subject on macgroup, I suspect that it may be your power supply that's on the fritz. In that case, you can just remove the lampshade HD (as someone suggested) and use it as an external drive. Hope I haven't overly-complicated the situation. Nolan
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