Q: New HD/Time Machine Restore
Good morning Apple community. I have an iMac 2008, and the HD recently crashed, so I'm in the process of replacing it (1TB drive) and restoring via Time Machine. I went through the physical install ok, but restoring via Time Machine is now the issue. It took about 4 hours to restore, and when it was complete, went to restart to boot off the new drive, I keep getting a text error and it reboots itself again. I managed snap a screenshot of it and outside a lot of code, one of the things I noticed on there was "Mac OS version: Not set yet". Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), 2008
Posted on Sep 27, 2016 4:26 AM
Migration Assistant is not a backup, MA is designed to migrate data from one Mac to another. Time Machine is the backup and can also be used to restore the backup. What you may have to do is to install SL, then update it using the Snow Leopard Update Combo from Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1. If you have updated to any OS beyond SL, then you will have to go to the Mac App store in the purchased tab and then update to the same version of OS X that you had installed and re-download and install it. Then you can use Time Machine to restore your backup.
This all would have been easily avoided if you had backed up using a bootable clone but you did not.
Posted on Sep 30, 2016 5:34 AM