I erased my MacBook, I want to reload it from my MacBookPro
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), iOS 9.1
What is the exact model/year of Macbook and the current OSX.
What is the current OSX in you MBP and it it a non-retina model or a retina model?
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I would say my MacBook is around a 09 model and my MBP is a 2012 ?non-retina
You can use Target Disk Mode:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462
You may clone the 2012 MBP to the 2009 Macbook, assuming that there is enough room on the Macbook HDD, using Disk utility>Restore or a cloning application such as Carbon Copy Cloner. Or you can install a different OSX on the Macbook and transfer only select data from the 2012 MBP.
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thank you, that's what I was looking for. now I have to get to those arrows to load from the new one to the old one. I'll come back to you if I have a problem. thanks, MJo
I looked at that. What I'm hoping to do is reload my old Mac with info from the newer Mac and use the older one as a freestanding Mac. I erased to old Mac to reinstall the OS
Use the information provided by OGELTHORPE to clone the information from MacBook Pro to MacBook. Then reboot the MacBook and it will be a "freestanding" Mac.
Excuse my stupidity, I'm a little slow. so if I hook up the Macs with a cable and restart the older Mac holding down the t, it has that 3 legged thing that floats around the desktop, then does it become the recipient of the content of the new MacBookPro? and then I restart the older one without the cable and it stands alone?
lawexpress wrote:
Excuse my stupidity, I'm a little slow. so if I hook up the Macs with a cable and restart the older Mac holding down the t, it has that 3 legged thing that floats around the desktop, then does it become the recipient of the content of the new MacBookPro?
As recommended by OGELTHORPE... then you will need to use Disk utility>Restore or a cloning application such as Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the information from MacBook Pro to MacBook.
... and then I restart the older one without the cable and it stands alone?
Yes
When you see the Firewire icon (three legged thing), your older MBP will act as any external HDD. You could take information off of it (if there were any), you could refomat it, add information to it, or as I suggested earlier, copy your entire 2012 MBP data, including the OSX and the recovery partition, to it.
Again let me remind you to make certain that there is sufficient room on the Mackbook HDD. (old Mac generally have much smaller HDDs installed in them than newer ones.)
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How do I reload my MacBook from my MacBookPro
