Migrating to new imac 24"...BIG problem

Got my new imac 24"..connected it to old G4 733...connected them with firewire and used migration assistant.
NOW...there seems to be none of my old stuff on the new imac AND the g4 ,when started,beeped three times then power light flashes.
AAAAGHH!!!
Is there any way of booting up the G4?
If i put in my software restore cd..would that help..and which button is it to hold down whilst starting up.
Getting really concerned that i may lose all my stuff on old G4!!!
Thanks in advance

It does seem a million to one chance you'd have a hardware failure at the time you were migrating to a new computer. Have you tried starting the old G4 without anything attached, literally anything and then perhaps just a keyboard, mouse and monitor?
In the worst case if you do need to remove the hard drive, you just lift the ring on the right hand panel of the computer case, drop the side down, unplug the ribbon and power cable from the drive, undo a screw to remove the drive and it's carrier from the computer and then undo a further four screws to remove the drive from the carrier. Installation instructions can be found here in the ATA Hard Drive section, assuming your computer is a Quicksilver (although you'd be doing the reverse to remove the drive):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75314
FireWire or USB enclosures aren't that expensive and once you've installed the drive (according to the supplied instructions) you'd just connect it up to your new Mac via FireWire or USB.
As I say though, it's perhaps a last resort if you can't get your old G4 to start.

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