forsgump Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 I tried to search first, but will come out and ask--advice on moving this to the correct forum would be appreciated in addition to a solution to the situation below: My wife's mac mini died suddenly and without warranty. Since I have many PCs but no other mac mini's I have no way to determine what piece died. But I digress.... I'm wondering the steps required to take her standard mac SATA hard drive and use it in a hackint0sh. Would it just be a matter of installing something like pc_efi? The build I'm looking at is an Intel Core 2 Quad on a motherboard with a "compatible" chipset (GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L). No worry about dual boot or anything--just make her existing Tiger hard drive work. I can make this harddrive available to another hackintosh, Linux or Windows in order to patch/fix it. If making the existing install work isn't possible, does Tiger have a migration assistant like Leopard does that could pull in our iTunes and iPhoto libraries--so that I could perform a "standard" osx86 install and transfer her data? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171955-transfer-tiger-from-dead-mac-mini/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konami® Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Does your wife's mac mini is PPC? means if the mini have a G4 processor or is a Mac mini with Intel Processor? If the mini have Intel processor, then you could take out the HARD DRIVE and make it a clone, then in that clone HD install the new Chameleon 2 RC1. I never tried, but don't know how difficult could be to do this. If your Mini is dead, I think is impossible to do a migration assistant. If you have Windows you could use Mac Drive 7 and backup what is in the Hard Drive of the Mini. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171955-transfer-tiger-from-dead-mac-mini/#findComment-1183755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
forsgump Posted June 23, 2009 Author Share Posted June 23, 2009 Does your wife's mac mini is PPC? means if the mini have a G4 processor or is a Mac mini with Intel Processor? If the mini have Intel processor, then you could take out the HARD DRIVE and make it a clone, then in that clone HD install the new Chameleon 2 RC1. I never tried, but don't know how difficult could be to do this. If your Mini is dead, I think is impossible to do a migration assistant. If you have Windows you could use Mac Drive 7 and backup what is in the Hard Drive of the Mini. Thanks for the quick reply . Hers was a Core Duo 1.8 mini. I didn't realize the old Mac had to be running to do migration assistant (I thought you could hook the drive up via USB enclosure or as an additional internal drive). I will research Chameleon 2 RC1, as I'm not familiar with that. I plan to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner (using my other hackintosh i've been messing around with) to backup her disk before I do anything with it just in case. Thanks for the tip! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171955-transfer-tiger-from-dead-mac-mini/#findComment-1183766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Thanks for the quick reply . Hers was a Core Duo 1.8 mini. I didn't realize the old Mac had to be running to do migration assistant (I thought you could hook the drive up via USB enclosure or as an additional internal drive). I will research Chameleon 2 RC1, as I'm not familiar with that. I plan to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner (using my other hackintosh i've been messing around with) to backup her disk before I do anything with it just in case. Thanks for the tip! When I installed Leopard on my system, I used Apple's Migration Assistant to migrate all my User's Folders and Data over from my Tiger Install on USB External Hard Drive. Danyel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171955-transfer-tiger-from-dead-mac-mini/#findComment-1185775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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