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I just purchased a new iMac to replace my old G4 AGP 400Mhz Powermac. My old G4 had two hard drives installed each of which contained a number of partitions. The only partition which is transferred to my new iMac using the firewire target disk mode is the partition containing the operating system OS X 10.3.9, which was the old start up volume for this Mac. I have numerous other files, applications on the other partitions. Is there any way I can transfer these files? I can't use my new iMac as a firewire target disk, since the monitor on my old Mac no longer works. That's one reason why I decided to upgrade to the iMac. Thanks!

Hello! The monitor doesn't have to be working to use FTD mode however FTD mode only sees the master on the ide chain. I'd suggest either a cheap firewire enclosure to mount the drives in or a 1 gig flash drive. Tom

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