Mounting a Seagate 7200.7 hard drive on a Mac Mini

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Mounting a Seagate 7200.7 hard drive on a Mac Mini

My G5 1.6GHz machine is dead. The power supply is bad or the motherboard is blown. I want to get my data off the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Hard drive. I just bought a Mac Mini. Can I convert my old hardrive to an external drive and use the USB or firewire interface to mount the drive? Will I be able to migrate over my iTunes library using this method? Does anyone have any enclosure recommendations if my ideas will work? thanks.

Mac G5 1.6 GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Oct 14, 2009 7:39 PM

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BDAqua

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Oct 14, 2009 8:03 PM in response to LennyC

Hi jscady, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

Several ways, here's two...

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/FWU2ES2HDK/

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LennyC Author

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Nov 7, 2009 3:22 PM in response to BDAqua

I put my old Mac G5 HD in a newertechnology miniStack v2.5 enclosure. I was able to migrate my old accounts from the old HD and I can now use this is an an external drive. I like the enclosure, lots of USB ports and it looks great with my new mac mini. I can even run apps from my old system.

The only minor issue is that I am unable to deauthorize my iTunes music from my old machine. However, this is no big deal as my music is authorized on just two machines: my dead G5 and my new mini.

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BDAqua

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Nov 7, 2009 3:39 PM in response to LennyC

Great to hear, good news Lenny, thanks! 🙂

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