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Q: I want a flash drive or similar device that will transfer information from an older power mac g4 to my newer i mac…suggesti ... more
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Dec 14, 2013 11:14 AMby a brody,HelpfulAs long as your Powermac G4 is not a PCI PowerMac G4 as this article explains:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3082
You can use Target Disk Mode and follow this tip:
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Dec 19, 2013 7:38 PMby Martin Joseph,I don't know if a modern iMac will recognize the disk in an Mac OS 8.5 machine? Haven't tried it. Defintely the way to try first though.
If that turns out to be a nonstarter, you could use a firewire drive of some kind (that's my favorite). I suppose it should be formatted as HFS +.
Hope this makes some sense.
