Hi Ranulph The easiest way is to do a full time machine backup of your current MB and then wipe the MBA using the recovery partition. Hold CMD + R when booting, then use Disk Utility to erase the drive, then reinstall OS X. It's easiest to import from a time machine backup as the MBA doesn't have an ethernet socket or firewire for target disk mode.
Regards Sam MacAmbulance Providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk [email protected] On 29 Jul 2012, at 19:00, Ranulph Glanville <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a MBA running Lion. I'd like to erase it, and convert it to be my > wife's machine, importing everything from her old MB. > > I know there's (often) a recovery partition. If I can find it, can I > re-initialise the machine from that, importing the date from the old MB? I > guess that has to be done by usb, so it'll be a little protracted! > > Thanks for any suggestions and/or pointers! > > Ranulph > > > > > > On 26 Jul 2012, at 17:03, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > >> Hi Stephen >> >> The USB flash drives are nowhere near SSD drives in terms of performance. >> Also the USB2 bus is 480mbps, your internal SATA connection is anything up >> to 3gb/sec. >> >> You'll find the machine much slower than normal booting off a USB stick and >> should only be done if you need to repair your internal hard drive (or use >> the Lion recovery partition). >> >> Regards >> >> Sam >> MacAmbulance >> Providing affordable Apple & PC services >> >> Sam Mullen >> 07747 778022 >> http://www.macambulance.co.uk >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
