Possible to use Migration Assistant to go from 10.5 to 10.4?

Trying to save what I can from a customers PPC G5 HD that's failing, and wondering if it's the drive that's dying or 10.5.2 that prevents migration assistant form allowing settings, apps & files to be copied to a new drive running 10.4.11.
The drive mounts, but can't boot from it any more, migration assist doesn't see it tho when I run it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
p2

Phillip Powell wrote:
Trying to save what I can from a customers PPC G5 HD that's failing, and wondering if it's the drive that's dying or 10.5.2 that prevents migration assistant form allowing settings, apps & files to be copied to a new drive running 10.4.11.
The drive mounts, but can't boot from it any more, migration assist doesn't see it tho when I run it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
p2
I would clone the drive using CarbonCopyCloner and deal with the other stuff later. Getting the data saved is the most important thing. All you need is an external HD.
CCC is free from http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html and is Leopard compatible.

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