The ‘happy’ end to the story is that I went in and did the Time Machine restore in store. It took 3.5 hours but they were happy for me to do it there and it seems to have worked (so I could have done it at home…). I declined to buy my faulty hard drive back off them.
I did check out how to replace a hard drive and it looked like more than I would want to take on. But putting in a larger SSD drive might have been a good, but more expensive option. Richard > On 5 Apr 2016, at 14:57, [email protected] wrote: > > I will try asking them, Sam! > > I wonder if I could just try and do the Time Machine backup restore in-store > and leave the old drive if all goes well? It might take a while and I ma not > sure if they would let me... > > I am beginning to wish I had done the replacement myself and perhaps upgraded > while I was at it. > > Richard > > > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit 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 https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
