Stilgar1973
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Please don't rag on me for doing something stupid. I know it was dumb, I think I have figured out the correct answer. Because of me pictures of my father-in-laws deceased wife are in danger of being unrecoverable, I feel bad enough.
Please give me some help.
Okay. Bottom line, I am a PC guy invading my Father-in-laws Mac universe. I know a great deal about PC's, I have a cert under my belt and am working on my CCNA. Generally I am not a stupid person.
I know nothing about Macs or OSX or Unix or Linux.
I am willing to learn.
(in fact I would like my next class after my CCNA classes to be focused on OSX)
My Dad in law bought an imac. It will be arriving on Monday. It is replacing a 4 year old emac.
He tasked me with figuring out how to transfer files from his old mac to his new mac.
While at the local mac store I talked to the guy selling us the imac and he suggested that software that transfers files between an old comp and a new comp may not be trustworthy because of how new 10.5 is. He suggested that making a backup and transfering the files from the backup to the new comp may be the way to go.
I asked if he could do it and he was like, 'ummm sure. First hour costs $100'.
I got the point.
Now I had tried to network the emac with my PC in the past and had nothing but trouble. In fact, I was never successful with it. When I had tried it in the past it went so badly that this time I didn't even try that route.
I had installed a DVDRW on his emac recently. But when I tried to write to it for the backup I couldn't get it to write. I got frustrated and confused over wether the problem was some weird permissions thing or if it was missing drivers for burning.
There is only 1 partition on that disc (mistake number 1) and it is called something like MAC0S. I made it when I installed 10.4 in the spring.
So I was stuck.
I only had 1 partition to work with, I couldn't network out and I couldn't burn.
The correct answer was: to go into disk manager via the 10.4 disk and create a new partition out of the free space and do a backup to that.
But I was frustrated and that thought never occured to me.
Instead I did the dumbest thing imaginable.
I did the backup of the entire machine to the desktop.
So... I let it run overnight.
The next day I checked it out and discovered that it had rebooted and come up with an OS9 style folder with a question mark in the middle of it.
Didn't take me long to learn what had happened.
The MACOS parition had dissapeared and a different parition (what I would discover isn't a proper partition) called OS2 had taken its place.
Thats all I got. That is where I am at.
On Saturday I am removing that drive from the emac and putting it in a USB enclosure. When he gets his imac I am going to use some sort of drive recovery software on it.
That is the only idea I have.
Here is the key: I don't need the OS back. He is getting an Imac on Monday. The emac is toast anyways.
I just need to get at the information on that disc so I can put it on the new imac.
Any suggestions or advice or software recommendations would be most helpful.
Please give me some help.
Okay. Bottom line, I am a PC guy invading my Father-in-laws Mac universe. I know a great deal about PC's, I have a cert under my belt and am working on my CCNA. Generally I am not a stupid person.
I know nothing about Macs or OSX or Unix or Linux.
I am willing to learn.
(in fact I would like my next class after my CCNA classes to be focused on OSX)
My Dad in law bought an imac. It will be arriving on Monday. It is replacing a 4 year old emac.
He tasked me with figuring out how to transfer files from his old mac to his new mac.
While at the local mac store I talked to the guy selling us the imac and he suggested that software that transfers files between an old comp and a new comp may not be trustworthy because of how new 10.5 is. He suggested that making a backup and transfering the files from the backup to the new comp may be the way to go.
I asked if he could do it and he was like, 'ummm sure. First hour costs $100'.
I got the point.
Now I had tried to network the emac with my PC in the past and had nothing but trouble. In fact, I was never successful with it. When I had tried it in the past it went so badly that this time I didn't even try that route.
I had installed a DVDRW on his emac recently. But when I tried to write to it for the backup I couldn't get it to write. I got frustrated and confused over wether the problem was some weird permissions thing or if it was missing drivers for burning.
There is only 1 partition on that disc (mistake number 1) and it is called something like MAC0S. I made it when I installed 10.4 in the spring.
So I was stuck.
I only had 1 partition to work with, I couldn't network out and I couldn't burn.
The correct answer was: to go into disk manager via the 10.4 disk and create a new partition out of the free space and do a backup to that.
But I was frustrated and that thought never occured to me.
Instead I did the dumbest thing imaginable.
I did the backup of the entire machine to the desktop.
So... I let it run overnight.
The next day I checked it out and discovered that it had rebooted and come up with an OS9 style folder with a question mark in the middle of it.
Didn't take me long to learn what had happened.
The MACOS parition had dissapeared and a different parition (what I would discover isn't a proper partition) called OS2 had taken its place.
Thats all I got. That is where I am at.
On Saturday I am removing that drive from the emac and putting it in a USB enclosure. When he gets his imac I am going to use some sort of drive recovery software on it.
That is the only idea I have.
Here is the key: I don't need the OS back. He is getting an Imac on Monday. The emac is toast anyways.
I just need to get at the information on that disc so I can put it on the new imac.
Any suggestions or advice or software recommendations would be most helpful.