mapleleef29
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Q: New HD/Time Machine Restore

Good morning Apple community.  I have an iMac 2008, and the HD recently crashed, so I'm in the process of replacing it (1TB drive) and restoring via Time Machine.  I went through the physical install ok, but restoring via Time Machine is now the issue.  It took about 4 hours to restore, and when it was complete, went to restart to boot off the new drive, I keep getting a text error and it reboots itself again.  I managed snap a screenshot of it and outside a lot of code, one of the things I noticed on there was "Mac OS version: Not set yet".  Anyone have any ideas?  Thanks in advance!

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), 2008

Posted on Sep 27, 2016 4:26 AM

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  • by rkaufmann87,

    rkaufmann87 rkaufmann87 Sep 27, 2016 7:29 AM in response to mapleleef29
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    Sep 27, 2016 7:29 AM in response to mapleleef29

    I would recommend installing Snow Leopard from the SL DVD's you purchased. once you have installed SL then attempt your restore from your TM backup and see if that works.

     

    Going forward, it would have been wise to make a bootable clone of the internal HD and then after the new HD is installed boot from the clone and then format the new HD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) GUID partition and then restore the clone to the new HD.

  • by mapleleef29,

    mapleleef29 mapleleef29 Sep 30, 2016 4:48 AM in response to rkaufmann87
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    Sep 30, 2016 4:48 AM in response to rkaufmann87

    Installed Snow Leopard yesterday evening and did the backup via Migration Assistant and it didn't work. Spent 3 hours transferring all of the data over and when I went to reboot, I couldn't get past the Apple startup screen Now it's looking like I'll have to reformat the drive (again), and re-install SL. Should I do to TM backup from there or try the Migration Assistant again?  SO frustrated right now

  • by rkaufmann87,

    rkaufmann87 rkaufmann87 Sep 30, 2016 5:34 AM in response to mapleleef29
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    Sep 30, 2016 5:34 AM in response to mapleleef29

    Migration Assistant is not a backup, MA is designed to migrate data from one Mac to another. Time Machine is the backup and can also be used to restore the backup. What you may have to do is to install SL, then update it using the Snow Leopard Update Combo from Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.  If you have updated to any OS beyond SL, then you will have to go to the Mac App store in the purchased tab and then update to the same version of OS X that you had installed and re-download and install it. Then you can use Time Machine to restore your backup.

     

    This all would have been easily avoided if you had backed up using a bootable clone but you did not.

  • by mapleleef29,

    mapleleef29 mapleleef29 Sep 30, 2016 7:05 AM in response to rkaufmann87
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    Sep 30, 2016 7:05 AM in response to rkaufmann87

    Ok thanks - I'll give this a shot tonight and let you know how it works!  And I'll be making a bootable clone once this is all said and done