Migration killed my old G3
Hi,
I'd be very grateful if anyone can help me with the following problem. I just received my MBP and followed the instructions during setup for transferring all the files from my old iBook G3 to the new laptop via Firewire. This seemed to work fine, and when the transfer was complete I followed the instruction to turn off the old Mac. Now the MBP seems to work alright, but the old G3 won't start up--it's as though the new one sucked the brain out completely.
The G3 will start up using the install disk, but I'd have to wipe the hard drive clean in order to reinstall this (the option to reinstall just the operating system won't work, according to a popup window, because of system upgrades that have been installed). What went wrong? Does anyone know how I can get the G3 working again without losing the contents of the harddrive?
By the way, it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. I ran the hardware check CD and it passed. Also, I saw someone posted the exact same problem in another forum (but he didn't get any answers).
Thanks!
You mentioned that you used migration to transfer your files, then that means that your G3 has firewire (???) there is way to boot your G3 as a virtual hard drive (target drive???) and maybe drag enough files temporarily onto your MBP to create enough space on the G3 to do an archive and install.
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