Nora, No, I was going from an iMac that is three editions ago, (Intel) or so, to a new MacPro 12 processor. The architecture of the two machines must be enough different that they will not mesh. All the dialogue said was it was from an "older" Mac and would not restore. They are right but I wish it had been disclosed before I messed everything up by trying to do it.
John On Jan 8, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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