Best to boot from your external SSD and use CCC to clone back to the internal drive (after erasing it via Disk Utility). If you can boot successfully from the external SSD and all your files are there, it should be fine to wipe the internal drive.
Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 14 Oct 2015, at 12:04, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, so that didn't last long. > > After a morning of use, there are just some glitches on my MBP 2011 that just > irritate me, so I'd rather downgrade and then revisit when I've more time to > tinker. > > But, now I need help. > > I tried Command R from a TimeMachine backup, but it only found a full back up > as recently as 2013? What's going on there? I backup every Friday night? > > So, I plugged in my external SSD that has a Carbon Copy Clone on it, from > just before the update. I boot from that, but when when I try to select the > internal SSD as the destination volume, it says that it's 'unwritable'. > > Now what?!?! I didn't want to use Disk Utility to erase the internal SSD > until someone says that's correct?!?! > > Hope I can go back (although, will it play havoc with Notes etc, which I know > now prefer El Capitan for fancy formatting etc?!) > > Help!! (please) > > AP > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug > <http://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
