Question a/b cloning Tiger based hard drive to a new Mac with Lepoard
I have a Blackbook with Tiger, and am planning to purchase a new Unibody Mac.
How do I clone my hard drive? Do I take the Lepoard discs from the new Unibody, and install them on my Blackbook and then clone the drive? Or is there another way to do this.
I have a Blackbook with Tiger, and am planning to purchase a new Unibody Mac.
How do I clone my hard drive? Do I take the Lepoard discs from the new Unibody, and install them on my Blackbook and then clone the drive? Or is there another way to do this.
Thanks
If the new Unibody is a Macbook Pro model then connect the two with a firewire cable, start the older macbook in Target Disk Mode (hold down t key when starting) then on the newer model use migration assistant to import what you want.
hope this helps
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I have a Blackbook with Tiger, and am planning to purchase a new Unibody Mac.
How do I clone my hard drive? Do I take the Lepoard discs from the new Unibody, and install them on my Blackbook and then clone the drive? Or is there another way to do this.
Thanks
I would reinstall Leopard on the new mac and when it comes time during the install when it asks if you want to transfer info from one mac to another, thats when you can migrate your tiger info. Unless you want tiger on the new mac instead.
I would reinstall Leopard on the new mac and when it comes time during the install when it asks if you want to transfer info from one mac to another, thats when you can migrate your tiger info. Unless you want tiger on the new mac instead.
You don't need to reinstall anything. When you boot the new Mac up for the first time, you're presented with Migration Assistant right off the bat.
FYI: The new Mac does not support Tiger. The version of Leopard that ships pre-installed is the minimum OS requirement for that machine.
I guess I should read a little slower, I saw new mac and just thought new to the op not brand new. Thought just incase the previous owner had stuff on it, which obvious to me now is not the case.
FYI: The discs that ship with the unibody MacBook(Pro) do not support your MacBook, and therefore you could not use those discs to install Leopard on your old MacBook (it will not let you, don't even bother trying. The gray discs that ship with Macs are machine specific). If you wanted to install Leopard on the old MacBook, you'd need to buy a retail copy of Leopard for $129.
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If the new Unibody is a Macbook Pro model then connect the two with a firewire cable, start the older macbook in Target Disk Mode (hold down t key when starting) then on the newer model use migration assistant to import what you want.
hope this helps
not even... you can simply plug it with just any cat5e cable and enjoy 500megabit ethernet transfer. Both macbook will automatically cross over the ethernet cable needed to do the connection between the machines.
it should be in theory faster than TCP over IEEE 1394a.
also, i say 500megabit, because a direct ethernet connection between 2 computers, the gigabit network is supposed to be split in half, thus 500megabit. BUT it is still a FULL DUPLEX connection running at half the speed!!
AFAIK, the only time i did a Tiger migration to Leopard, i directed it to NOT copy the programs, but it did anyways...
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" ... Is this true? Or is there a way around this - maybe upgrade my macbook to Lepoard, and then clone the drive for transfer to the new MBP? ..."
Well, it's not really the standard way. Don't you have the registration info for your apps? A few might need the installer disks, but not that many.
If you have an external enclosure available you can use Disk Utility's Restore function to make a clone of the old drive (you will have to start up from your install disk), startup from the install DVD that comes with your new MacBookPro, and restore the external clone to your new drive with the version of Disk Utility that's on the DVD.
You will then have to reinstall the OS on the new MacBook Pro from the DVD, because the MacBook Pro won't work with a version of the OS older than whatever was current when it was made.
Might work; I've done it when swapping a new drive into the machine, but I've never had to do an OS update at the same time. If you really don't have a handle on what is going where, though, it might be best to just reinstall from original media or via downloads & your registration info.
You DO keep copies of your media and registration info, right?
" ... Your programs will copy over - the Windows partition does not. Not even if you cloned your drive and cloned it back to the new machine. ..."
You can copy the Windows partition the same way with Disk Utility (make a disk image via Restore), and then restore to another Windows partition from that image to you newly formatted drive with Mac OS and Windows partitions created in Disk Utility. Done it many times myself.
You can also use Winclone (free download) to copy your Windows partition, and restore via Disk Utility. Might be a little easier for some.
Having said all that, if you're not a veteran disk formatter this might be too much for you. One mistake and you can erase the drive with your stuff on it; you really need to have a good idea in your head what you are doing.
Last edited by gordguide; Mar 26th, 2009 at 10:48 PM.
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