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I have an old G5 that wont power up but the hardrive is still good, I want to pull the HD and transfer the data to my new Mac Book Pro, any suggestions? thanks so much

Reb,
You can do your file transfers with the swiss army knife that aqua suggested. That was my first thought.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/?APC=XLR8YourMac09
However, if you purchase an external firewire drive, it will give you far more options. You can install a clean system on it using your Mac Book Pro and try to revive your G5. The G5 will boot from an external firewire drive but not the USB adapter/swiss knife.
You can also open the external case, swap out drives and use it as a firewire version of the swiss army knife to transfer files from the G5.
If you get the G5 is going, you could look at Disk Utilities and see if something on the G5 drive is the reason the computer is not starting.
Just some options to consider.
Jim~

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