iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program - how long does it take?

Glad it worked for you. Better would have been to boot the machine with the CCC clone, wipe the new int HD, and clone the clone back. One step and everything, including OS components would be up to date. The TM restore is dependent on having a good TM backup and if not tested is betting on the come line. With a known, good clone, retoration is a piece of cake.

Yeah, I thought about that, and can still do that if I need to, but everything looks good so far. After a few days, I will probably turn on the external CCC drive and do another backup to it (probably full?) to have both Time Machine and the CCC as my backups.

The techs at the Apple store gave me this talk about, "Why wouldn't you want to use the Time Machine as your restore drive,? and we don't support CCC so if you have a problem, we can't help you with that (well, what could they do if I had missing data with Time machine but to advice to use CCC anyway). So I went with the Time Machine backup. Like I said, so far, everything seems good.

My question though, is if everything came back cloned from the Time Machine backup, why did it have to do a whole new backup once this was done? That tells me there were some differences.

Oh well........ It is what it is. LOL

IIRC, the TM backup is unique to the volume (HD) that it's backing up. Since you have a new HD, with an unique UUID, TM treats it as new and creates a new backup.

So what can I expect when I attach back my CCC external drive and try to backup to it?

Can I jump in here? Got my email today re replacement of 1TB Seagate HD. Checked which HD I have as people on here have recommended. Seems to suggest I have an nVidia drive. This was under Serial ATA Device Tree.

NVidia MCP79 AHCI:

Vendor: NVidia

Product: MCP79 AHCI

Link Speed: 3 Gigabit

Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit

Description: AHCI Version 1.20 Supported ST31000528ASQ:

Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)

Model: ST31000528ASQ

Revision: AP24

Serial Number: 9VP6PLLP

So, this is NOT a Seagate drive is it?

Can anyone confirm this?

Cheers.

Sorted. Yes it is the suspect drive. But am waiting for it to fail before replacing as the upheaval in either case is the same and I'm well backed up. And it has been running for two years with no probs . . .yet.

Took my November 2009 iMac in today, and got a 3 to 5 days turn round time :( Manchester UK

Hopefully the reinstall from time machine works or I'm in deep do do.

I was told yesterday 3-5 days, but got the phone call this morning my machine is ready to collect, that's not bad a 1 day turn round, would have preferred at home or same day, as I now have to make the 1 hour drive to the store again.

kateeba wrote:

So what can I expect when I attach back my CCC external drive and try to backup to it?

CCC will not be affected by the change of drive, changes will be copied as usual.

banksider wrote:

Can I jump in here? Got my email today re replacement of 1TB Seagate HD. Checked which HD I have as people on here have recommended. Seems to suggest I have an nVidia drive. This was under Serial ATA Device Tree.

NVidia MCP79 AHCI:

Vendor: NVidia

Product: MCP79 AHCI

Link Speed: 3 Gigabit

Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit

Description: AHCI Version 1.20 Supported ST31000528ASQ:

Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)

Model: ST31000528ASQ

Revision: AP24

Serial Number: 9VP6PLLP

So, this is NOT a Seagate drive is it?

Can anyone confirm this?

Cheers.

That is a Seagate drive, the nVidia component is the drive interface.

Well we took tow iMac in for the replacement, and time machine has NOT worked as the store said on either machine.

We were told that after the welcome screen restore from time machine and all we me ok. This did not work properly at all, do now trying a time machine restore using the install disk, which looks a better way so far.