I gather you were going from on old Power PC to an Intel Mac. Nora
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:41 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I had mentioned recently how easy it was to do a restore from TimeMachine > to your computer, or another disk. I have done this several times and it's > almost magical BUT it will NOT work when trying to restore from an older > iMac with Snow Leopard to a new MacPro. UGH, this was a hard lesson to > learn. > > I had a 12 core MacPro Server that I wanted to move to an ordinary Mac, > reformatted the hard drive and tried to install the Snow Leopard disk, it > would not read it so I made an appointment with the Genius Bar. > > Seems some of the MacPro drives would not read a few of the Snow Leopard > disk, of course I had one. They were kind enough to go ahead and install > Lion on the drive from their server, I bought the thumb drive with Lion on > it. > > Once home I hooked up the TimeMachine drive to the MacPro and did a > restore. Took a long time, but would not complete and when checking the > drive none of my files were really there, it also had created a Recovered > HD whick I could boot from since my drive 1 was unusable. In doing lots > of checking and 45 min. with Apple support I find the restore had scrambled > my Disk 1, so I booted to this recovered HD and ask to restore and NOW I > was told that I could not use as this backup was made with an older Mac and > could not be used to restore to this new machine. > > I wish it had told me before!! > > Reformatted drive 1 again, reinstalled Lion and now am dragging and > dropping all the files, applications, etc. This is sure a LOT harder than > using TimeMachine but there are instances when it can't be done. Thought I > would pass along my struggles. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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