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How to restore data on new hard drive

My old hard drive crashed and now I need to move the data I'd been backing up on an external hard drive. I believe I did a whole drive backup weekly.

How do I go about transferring the data from the external to the new internal drive?
Thank you.

PowerBook G4 15" Superdrive 1.5 GHz 512MB 167MHz 80GB, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Feb 15, 2010 1:13 PM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2010 1:28 PM

Have you formatted the new HD to HFS+ (Journaled)?

Is your backup HD connected via Firewire? If so boot to the external HD & use the same cloning software to transfer the files back to your new HD.

If your external HD is connected via USB, you'll have to use your Tiger install DVD to install Tiger on the new HD. Then boot to the new HD & install* the update to 10.4.11. Then, drag & drop the files/applications on the external HD back to the new HD.

*After you install the base 10.4.x, update to the final Tiger version 10.4.11. Here's the link for the 10.4.11 combo update http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24901?viewlocale=en_US

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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Feb 15, 2010 1:28 PM in response to Thinifer

Have you formatted the new HD to HFS+ (Journaled)?

Is your backup HD connected via Firewire? If so boot to the external HD & use the same cloning software to transfer the files back to your new HD.

If your external HD is connected via USB, you'll have to use your Tiger install DVD to install Tiger on the new HD. Then boot to the new HD & install* the update to 10.4.11. Then, drag & drop the files/applications on the external HD back to the new HD.

*After you install the base 10.4.x, update to the final Tiger version 10.4.11. Here's the link for the 10.4.11 combo update http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24901?viewlocale=en_US

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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Feb 22, 2010 1:34 PM in response to BDAqua

I'm running into problems restoring my data. I've tried both drag-and-drop and "Restore" from "Backup."
In drag-and-dropping the "User" file, I get an error message that "the operation cannot be completed because you don 't have sufficient privileges for some of the items."

"Backup" tell me that the file I've chosen isn't there. I guess I have to get "Backup" support from MobileMe, is that right?

Thanks for you suggestions. I'm only able to work on this once a week.

Feb 22, 2010 2:15 PM in response to Thinifer

Well, you can't replace the User file, (folder actually), that you are running under with another one.

Have you tried Migration Assistant in Applications>Utilities?

You could make a new User Account and we could try transferring to that account, or try opening that User Folder, then the d folders in that, then the folders in those like Documents to try transferring files to yours.

Feb 22, 2010 4:48 PM in response to Thinifer

Here's what I'd do, first, make certain there's always one admin account on the Mac even if you only use it to install things, then log into that new account MA made & if it isn't the only admin account you can remove admin rights & make it a regular account.

There are other ways, but a bit more work if you wish.

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