Mac Geeks, Tech needs help

[akodoreign]

Ok situation.

Old blueberry I-mac running OS 9.2, Professor has just purchased a new Intel Based Mac.

I cannot get the blueberry to see or transfer data to the new mac.

I have tried Firewire (the blueberry refuses to boot to target mode).

I have tried Direct Ip connection. and Crossover cable direct connect. The situation is network explorer has been disabled or uninstalled.

Also when I plug a 1 gig flash drive into it, the blueberry colored imac crashes.

Any thoughts.

My thought is install jaguar on the blueberry as an upgrade and then try. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

 

[dont24]

I thought the blueberry iMacs didn't have FW? if they do, did you plug the cable in before trying to boot into target mode?

 

[akodoreign]

I thought the blueberry iMacs didn't have FW? if they do, did you plug the cable in before trying to boot into target mode?

It does and I did. I appoligzie they are not I macs but the units that are towers. I realized that the imacs were the all in one units. these are the towers that are collored like that. they have 2x USB and 2x Firewire.

 

[Van]

You might have to try upgrading the os, does the prof have an iomega zip drive to back up the important things? He could do a transfer of the items through a zip drive or jazz drive if he has one, I'd do a test transfer first to be sure it works.

 

[Foxbat]

Power Mac G3 Towers (B&W) should have IDE drives. According to the LowEndMac site, they don't support FW Target mode. You could take the drive out of the G3 and plug it into an external USB Drive Adapter (Newertech makes the one I have, $20-$25) which should allow you to read it on the new Mac.

 

[akodoreign]

Power Mac G3 Towers (B&W) should have IDE drives. According to the LowEndMac site, they don't support FW Target mode. You could take the drive out of the G3 and plug it into an external USB Drive Adapter (Newertech makes the one I have, $20-$25) which should allow you to read it on the new Mac.

Ok cool. thanks that may save me a lot of heartburn. Thanks

 

[LonghornXP]

Depending on how big the files are you could always try uploading them onto some internet storage service. You could even email the files to a google account and download them on the new mac.

 

[akodoreign]

Depending on how big the files are you could always try uploading them onto some internet storage service. You could even email the files to a google account and download them on the new mac.

I wanted to avoid this kind of transfer (mainly because all the networking services are screwed on this old mac)

one of the reasons that the crossover cable didn't work.