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dlove

06-21-2007 08:54 AM

New MacPro cannot boot from firewire drive

I just got my new macpro and I'm trying to boot from a bootable firewire drive that I created from SD. The FW drive appears on the desktop and functions fine. When I restart with the option key pressed, the FW drive does not appear. I was able to boot on my old G5 mac. Any suggestions?

dnanian

06-21-2007 08:56 AM

You can't boot from a G5 copy on a MacPro: they use different chips (Intel vs. Power PC).

dlove

06-21-2007 09:37 AM

OK That explains it. Whats the best way to clone the FW drive. SD wont let me copy to the HD

dnanian

06-21-2007 10:16 AM

You should use the Migration Assistant, which appears during the first startup of the new Mac, to migrate from the backup or the original Mac.

dlove

06-21-2007 10:25 AM

Great Thanks

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