How do I transfer ALL partitioned drives from old mbp to new, with ethernet / migrate assistant, aside from only main mac HD partition?

Hi there
Does anyone know how I can migrate ALL of the partitioned drives from my old macbook 17 inch to new macbook 2013?
Seems like it only transfers the Macintosh HD drive - ie the user account - and I can't figure out how to transfer the rest of the partitioned drives?
I am using an ethernet cable with thunderbolt adapter. (I don't have a thunderbolt firewire adapter to use a firewire cable in disc target mode - hoping I can perform the FULL transfer using just the ethernet cable?
but no additional options for transferring additional drives show up when I use Migrate assistant?
Thanks
T

You can't use Migration Assistant to transfer files to OS X Mountain Lion from Mac OS X Tiger. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
What you have to do is to connect both Macs with FireWire, put the old one in Target Disk mode (hold the T key while the Mac mini is starting) and use Finder to restore the data you need manually. Another option is to transfer your files over the network > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549

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