getting data from old powerbook, how?

[ereiss]

My daughter's old powerbook's screen doesn't work but it makes every noise like it is working. She got a new macbook and wants to grab some of her info, pictures, itunes stuff from this dark old machine. Is there a way to do it? Thanks

Daughter's Father

 

[blevins321]

Get a Firewire cable. I think you'd need a 400-800 one because of the two different versions. Plug the two computers into each other with it. Then turn on the Powerbook while holding the letter T on the keyboard. After a few seconds, the hard drive should mount like a flash drive on the new Mac. You can copy data off this way.

Edit: Before you get rid of it, after all the data is copied, wipe the drive using Disk Utility on your new Mac. 🙂

 

[gngan]

Plug it to an external monitor + a external HDD. Drag all the files you want to the HDD.

or

Take out the HDD and put it in a enclosure. Plug it to the new MB.