Aug 08, '07 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: phillymjs
I was setting up a new Mac Pro for a user at one of my clients, and attempted to migrate her from her existing Power Mac G5. The new machine was configured with two internal hard drives, 500GB each. I attempted to migrate her data from the initial Setup Assistant, and everything went smoothly until we got to the actual "Transferring Information" screen -- no time estimate ever appeared in the progress bar, and the drives were not making sounds that would indicate they were being accessed.
I ended up rebooting the new machine via the power button and choosing not to migrate data when the Setup Assistant ran the next time. I made a dummy account and then ran Migration Assistant manually. I noticed that both internal drives on the Mac Pro were named Macintosh HD, and guessed that may have confused Migration Assistant. After I renamed the second drive, the copy proceeded without any problems.
To verify that the identically-named internal drives were indeed the problem, I stopped the migration, set the machine back to out-of-box state (except for the internal drives having identical names), and tried migrating the data from the initial Setup Assistant, and it worked flawlessly. I submitted a bug report to Apple about this, but thought I'd spread the word to possibly save someone else some time figuring this out before it gets fixed by a future version of Migration Assistant.
