My family has an old, 2008 20" Core 2 Duo iMac (USB 2.0, Firewire 800), and a just-purchased beautiful 2017 iMac (Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3).
The old iMac does boot - but the OS is corrupted to the point where it will black screen with a cursor after the apple logo disappears from the boot sequence. That is to say, it will do target disk mode and boot off an external drive. Of course, it has all the data on it I need to get to, like 30gb of photos.
What's the least painful way to go about the data transfer? In my mind, here are the options:
1) Target disk mode the 2008 iMac, find a firewire to thunderbolt 2 adapter, use my TB2 to TB3 adapter. Will this even work?
2) Create a bootable external USB drive, boot the iMac off it, and transfer onto an external HD.
3) Use the recovery disk to image the existing HD onto a partition on an external USB Drive. The recovery disk boot works fine, I've tested
4) Black magic?
Let me know if I'm missing a method. I'm guessing I can't target disk mode it into USB, that would be WAY too easy for . I have tried via network, and it's way too slow for the thousands of tiny files. Days for a single Photos library. The old iMac has 10.10 installed FYI.
Thanks!
The old iMac does boot - but the OS is corrupted to the point where it will black screen with a cursor after the apple logo disappears from the boot sequence. That is to say, it will do target disk mode and boot off an external drive. Of course, it has all the data on it I need to get to, like 30gb of photos.
What's the least painful way to go about the data transfer? In my mind, here are the options:
1) Target disk mode the 2008 iMac, find a firewire to thunderbolt 2 adapter, use my TB2 to TB3 adapter. Will this even work?
2) Create a bootable external USB drive, boot the iMac off it, and transfer onto an external HD.
3) Use the recovery disk to image the existing HD onto a partition on an external USB Drive. The recovery disk boot works fine, I've tested
4) Black magic?
Let me know if I'm missing a method. I'm guessing I can't target disk mode it into USB, that would be WAY too easy for . I have tried via network, and it's way too slow for the thousands of tiny files. Days for a single Photos library. The old iMac has 10.10 installed FYI.
Thanks!