What should I do before I bring my my 21.5 inch IMac into the Apple store for replacement? I am using Time Machine with a 2 TB Seagate external drive. Can I restore all with Time Machine after Apple replaces the drive and installs the operating sytem? Will they restore version 10.8.2?
Thank you,
Kent
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Apart from that Time Machine backup, I recommend you to make a clone of your hard disk with Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper or just using Disk Utility's Restore feature onto a different external disk or on a different partition of that external drive. This will simplify the restore process and there's less risk of getting a damaged system after restoring your data. Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant may fail.
See > https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4481
If you need help to create a second partition on the external disk, see > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU3.html
Thanks I will get Carbon Copy Cloner. I will set up a partition on my external Seagate drive. I have over 1.5 TB free. How can I check if I can boot from this external drive?
Simple. To start from the clone, just hold the Option (Alt) key while you Mac is starting, so your Mac will show up all bootable volumes. In that list, you should see your external disk with the clone, so select it to start from the clone
I got Carbon Copy Clone and backed up my IMac to a bootable partition on my external drive. I went to system preferences, start up and booted from the external drive. Everything seemed OK as I launched applications to verify. I then booted back to my internal drive. After Apple replaces my hard drive how do I transfer the backup volume to my new drive?
Thanks for the help.
It's easy to restore the backup. First, start your Mac from the external disk with the clone, and then, follow the steps that appear under "Restoring an entire volume (including system files)" since step 6 > http://help.bombich.com/kb/overview/restoring-data-from-your-backup
Seagate 1 TB Hard Drive Replacement Program.
