Bill, I have done this over and over, NEVER going from Lion to Lion so I suspect that all will go fine, boy trying to go from Snow Leopard using Migration just won't cut it.....learned that the hard way and the guys at the Apple store confirmed it after I had gotten into a mess.
If I were doing what you intend I would put the new drive in the MBP, put the old one in the enclosure, install Lion (I assume by downloading, or with the thumb drive) on the new drive (after formatting as you say) and then when booting up the first time it will ask if you want to migrate from another machine or TimeMachine I would then choose the old drive in the enclosure. If going from Lion to Lion works as well as going from Snow Leopard to Snow Leopard it should be a smooth transaction. John > My 2007 MBP has been giving me hints that it's hard drive won't make it > through the summer, so I plan on switching it out with a new one. I am > getting a Western Digital 320GB, to replace the 120GB. I have also ordered > an enclosure that I can put the old one in after I transfer them. > My concern is making the data transfer. Do I first just connect the old one > (still in the MBP) to the new one in the enclosure with a usb cable and use > Migration Assistant on the Mac? I know I'll need to format the new one as > Journaling something to be Mac friendly, but do I have to put Lion on the new > one before I 'Migrate'? Or does Lion get moved over too? Since I upgraded to > 10.7.xx, I don't have an install disc (because I downloaded it), so do I ...? > ...go to the app store and somehow reinstall from previous purchases? How can > I make the new drive as clean as possible? > Looking forward to doing this surgery this Holiday weekend. As always, I > appreciate anyone's help and advice. > > Bill Micou > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
