I doubt it, I think the main problem here was the complete differences between the machines. Had I been restoring to another iMac, at least close to the same vintage I think all would have gone well. Once I get the Mac Pro backed up I feel comfortable with a restore if a drive goes South.
I was trying to put all the files off a 2007 iMac (I put my serial number into a search on Apple's site, it told me it was a 2007). onto a 2011 Mac Pro. That is like putting a door handle off a Desota onto a Porsche, there are bound to be problems, I should have known. John On Jan 8, 2012, at 6:00 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > Now that is scary. So do I gather the only option is to manually bring > everything over to the new system? > > Nora > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:45 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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