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Feb 22, 2015 9:54 AM in response to SmartGuy85by babowa,I've asked the hosts to move your question to the correct forum - as a G3 running OS 9.x is not an Intel iMac. Good luck!
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Feb 22, 2015 12:10 PM in response to SmartGuy85by rccharles,It was trying to eject, but it was stickin
The drives seem to slow down with age.
My other question is, can I use an iPod to use as a hard drive to connect to the iMac g3 and get what I want off of its hard drive and put some of the information from it onto the newer computer? Would I have a problem connecting the iPod to the older computer then connecting it to the newer computer?
Give it a try. Using a flash drive is the usual way. Should format the flash drive for hfs (???) extended -- a mac format.
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Feb 24, 2015 11:41 AM in response to SmartGuy85by K Shaffer,The earlier model iPod had a FireWire port, so that could work to move files
between computers, and it may work to perform a backup to an Mac OS
if the formatting were correct in the iPod's drive, for use with Mac OS 9 or X.
Later USB ported iPods probably would be unable to help where OS X or
other system software were involved. A utility may be needed to move any
software that does not prefer to be drag-drop installed, or system owned
by an OS X where copying by drag/drop may fail. Early OS X had its own
problems; so hopefully you can use early vintage iPod w/ FW to help. Or
if not too out-of-range, a USB based device could be used. Slowly.
Good luck & happy computing!