[geeks] Swapping hard drives in a G4

[Brian Dunbar]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> 
>>The LCD backlight on the first has crapped out.  Is it possible to
>>simply plug the hard drive from the one with a broken LCD to the 
>>healthy
>> laptop with a minimum of fuss and bother from the operating system?
>>
> 
> 
> Can you not use firewire target disk mode?
> 
> --Patrick

Sure - but I'm still copying files and setting up house on a new drive,
unless I'm missing something.

I'm impatient.  I want to plug in the old drive and (bam) be ready to
rock and or roll.

Okay I'm really not - but in a few weeks I'll have a new laptop and I'll
have to do this all over again.  I'm trying to avoid repitition.

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