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Old hard drive to new laptop, how to do it please

The screen on my eight old Powerbook was playing up so fortunately I was still paying the insurance for it and the parts are not available so I got a voucher from the warranty company and yesterday got myself a new 13" MacBook Pro plus a further £500 of credit to buy other things from the same store :-)


They have sent me my old hard drive but I am unsure how to go about getting everything re loaded on to my new machine


Do I need a specialist or just need some form of connection ?


Any help is much appreciated


Tony

Powerbook 1.5GHz PowerPC G4, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM

Posted on Feb 19, 2013 4:30 AM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2013 4:37 AM

I wouldn't worry about transferring too much from your old PowerBook to your new MacBook Pro - it's very unlikely that the old PPC applications will run.


However, if you want to transfer personal docs, music, etc., you should just get an enclosure (a cheap USB 2.0 enclosure like this one from OWC - have four of them now, two silver, two white) for the old drive and connect it to your MBP and copy whatever you like (excluding apps).


Good luck,


Clinton

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Feb 19, 2013 4:37 AM in response to tonybassplayer

I wouldn't worry about transferring too much from your old PowerBook to your new MacBook Pro - it's very unlikely that the old PPC applications will run.


However, if you want to transfer personal docs, music, etc., you should just get an enclosure (a cheap USB 2.0 enclosure like this one from OWC - have four of them now, two silver, two white) for the old drive and connect it to your MBP and copy whatever you like (excluding apps).


Good luck,


Clinton

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Feb 19, 2013 4:44 AM in response to tonybassplayer

Note that the link refers to a SATA (serial ATA) enclosure - yours is probably an older PATA (parallel ATA) drive, and this enclosure should work for you:


http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/494684-REG/Macally_PHR_250A_PHR_250A_USB_2 _0_External.html/c/product/#inpage:Usually+ships+in


If your drive has two blocks of large, visible pins on the edge, it's PATA. If it has two "blades", it's SATA.


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Feb 19, 2013 4:48 AM in response to tonybassplayer

Yep. It takes about 30 seconds to assemble everything - but - hmm - that may not be the enclosure you need (let me check)... I don't know - I'm not sure that enclosure will work with an old PowerBook ATA-6 drive. I'm almost positive that it won't call OWC - http://eshop.macsales.com/ - and see what they may have in stock. You should be able to get an enclosure of some sort and then you'd just hook it up to your new machine and begin copying your music, pics, etc.


Give OWC a call... I just can't find the right enclosure on my own!


Clinton

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