SD Instead of Migration Assistant
Hi,
I'm about to sell my MBP and hate the thought of having to reinstall all my wares on my new machine (another MBP). When I went from my PB to my MBP I used Migration Assistant and ended up with nothing but bugs and had to install everything over again, so I vowed to never go that route again. If I were to use SD and clone my HDD to a FW Lacie will I still end up with bugs? Is it easy with SD to overwrite a drive with that clone? Thanks for any help |
Dave's out travelling and will not be able to respond as quickly as he usually does.
I believe such a transition would be handled pretty smoothly by SuperDuper!: Step 1: clone your old MBP's drive onto the LaCie drive Step 2: plug your LaCie drive into the new MBP and boot from it; Launch SuperDuper! Step 3: clone the LaCie drive onto the new MBP's internal drive and set the internal drive as your boot device. I'm sure Dave would have put this more eloquently, but I hope this helps. Best. -- Jonas Quote:
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Jonas has it exactly right. Note, though, that the OS that you're going to copy from must work with the Mac you're copying to. If it's a brand new Mac, check to see if it's running the same build of OSX as you're running, or an earlier, or it's not going to work...
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NO: don't use SD! to do this migration. Use the migration assistant first and then, if you have a problem, you can try SD.
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I honestly don't know how Migration Assistant -- which doesn't bring in OS files -- could cause the Mac to be unbootable: that's just plain weird. But I'm glad you got it done with SD...
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