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Q: backup of my laptop hard drive from time capsule to a new external drive

My MacBook Pro 2011 appears to have failed. It's stuck on grey screen and I've already brought the laptop to the Genius Bar twice for repairs (Not willing to spend another $400 to fix). I have a time capsule backup but I want to restore it to a separate backup drive. I am planning on getting a new laptop and don't want to do a full migration assistant restore but rather do  clean install of applications and selectively restore some files, folders, photos, and music/video.

 

If I get a new MacBook can I hook up new external drive and selectively restore files to my new MacBook as well as create a copy of the old hard drive to a new external one for archival purposes?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), iOS 9.3.1

Posted on Apr 5, 2016 10:40 AM

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