hard drive replaced on imac how to restore data from external hard drive

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hard drive replaced on imac how to restore data from external hard drive

Hard drive crashed, replaced by authorized dealer. Need to transfer all data from external hard drive to repaired computer.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Sep 12, 2011 5:55 PM

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rkaufmann87

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Sep 12, 2011 5:57 PM in response to robertfrombaxter springs

Did you use Time Machine or create a bootable clone or did you just manually drag and drop from the computer's old internal HD to the external HD? In other words we need more information please.

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Sep 12, 2011 6:00 PM in response to rkaufmann87

I used Time Machine.

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WZZZ

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Sep 12, 2011 6:03 PM in response to robertfrombaxter springs

http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/14.html

See especially C.

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Eric Ross

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Sep 12, 2011 6:36 PM in response to robertfrombaxter springs

Take a loook at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889

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Kekkai

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Apr 10, 2012 2:38 PM in response to robertfrombaxter springs

Check this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

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