Transfer Query

courtastic

I was hoping someone could help me.

I bought a new iMac but it does not have a firewire connection (the one that is rounded at the top and square at the bottom)
I have an external harddrive that I need to transfer data from but it only has this connection.
Is there any way I can connect it through another harddrive at all? Or is the only way around this is buying a new cord to input straight into the computer?

RichD

this may or may not help
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Firewire-1394-4Pin-Camera-Cable/dp/B001IYHI3Y
I am not familiar with the hardware in an iMac but you can probably fit a firewire controler card.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=49&subid=422
Was your old machine also a Mac? If it was a PC then you Mac probably wont even read the disk

RichD

Thinking about it, depending on what hardware you have, you may be able to set up a shared network drive and copy it from your old machine to your new, but I know nothing about networking on Macs

kryyst

You can't get a firewire controller card for an iMac. But the Firewire to USB should work fine.

Alternatively hook up both mac's on the network and share the data that way.