Help restoring contents of drive to newer computer

2011-06-22 Thread Dan A
Hi all, I need some help to clarify the best procedure to use to restore the contents of an internal drive to a new place. My old G4 15ā€ 800 MHz Ti-Book, using 10.4.11, developed bouts of severe screen disruption with lines, which I think might be due to the cable going trom computer to screen,

Re: Help restoring contents of drive to newer computer

2011-06-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Dan A wrote: Hi all, I need some help to clarify the best procedure to use to restore the contents of an internal drive to a new place. My old G4 15ā€ 800 MHz Ti-Book, using 10.4.11, developed bouts of severe screen disruption with lines, which I think might be

Re: Help restoring contents of drive to newer computer

2011-06-22 Thread Charles Davis
Ok what should work. Get the 'firewire' full backups working as being 'bootable'. It's then quite simple. Hook up the firewire cable between the 1TB drive and the new (to you) 15 PB. have the 1TB drive powered up. Power on the new PB while holding the 'Option Key'. The 'old, backed up

Re: Help restoring contents of drive to newer computer

2011-06-22 Thread dan auerbach
On 22-Jun-11, at 6:42 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Dan A wrote: Here is the situation that Iā€™m working with: I have been doing daily backups of the 800MHz using SuperDuper to an external 1TB firewire drive. Even though SuperDuper has been finishing each backup