Hi--
I just replaced my HD and I want to restore from my Time Capusle. However, my install disks for my MacBook Pro (late 2008) are Leopard, and I was using Lion.
Do I restore first from TC, or install Snow Leopard first (then I can't use Set-up Assistant)?
Thanks for any input!
MacBook Pro (+7 previous Macs), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
IIRC, you install Lion and on first boot restore from your Time Machine backup. See Pondini's TM FAQs for details.
IIRC, you install Lion and on first boot restore from your Time Machine backup. See Pondini's TM FAQs for details.
You're right, I tried to restore first and got a message that I couldn't update because the TC contents were on a newer OS.
So, I now have to order and wait for a Snow Leopard disk, since I can't find mine, but after installing that and Lion, I'll have to use Migration Assistant, right? What a pain.
Thanks for your help, and if you have any other insight, I'd appreciate it.
If you had take some simple precautions before you replaced your drive you couls of just installed Lion on the new drive. That is to make a USB thumb drive containing recovery HD partition files or downloading Lion to a removeable drive and then made a Lion install USB thumb drive.
But if your old drive still works you can boot from that, by connecting it to a USB port with a SATA to USB adapter, and boot into the Recovery HD to download Lion to the new drive and install it or you could clone your old drive to the new one.
Read here lots of methods to restore
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3046
Ideally the best way would have been to use a Clone, and if you removed your drive you can still boot from it and clone with a IDE/SATA adapter and a free copy of Carbon Copy Cloner.
Use the "Block level" clone so it copies everything exactly. incluing the hidden Lion Recovery Partition
Thanks, all. I'm up and running as I was. And today I'll make a bootable clone so it's easier next time!
Thanks for the help!
Restoring Lion with Leopard disks on new HD
