Can't restore form old timemachine backup.backupdb folder please help?

Hi All,
I'm new here hope you all can help me please?
here's my story I used to have an Powerbook G4 -17inch model. I sold it and backed up the data using time machine. however I think I did a terrible mistake coping the PowerBook backup folder to external hard drive (Western Digital)without using superduper or other clone timemachine backup solutions.
I thought everything were smoothly copying the backup file to the external HD. Now after 1 and half bought my second Apple Laptop (Macbook unibody White 13.3) last night was trying to restore my old data (powerbook g4) data using - MAC OS X 10.6 INSTALLER DVD/ restore from time machine/ however the menu box doesn't recognize my external hard drive??? maybe I did something wrong?
I hook up the external hard drive to my macbook and lunch one the partition drive (2 partition on my external HD)and went to the backup folder and my old directory along with the files/ back up dates show up there, but can't view it...please help I'm trying to recover my data.. ...
Thank you so much!

RaulJ wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new here hope you all can help me please?
here's my story I used to have an Powerbook G4 -17inch model. I sold it and backed up the data using time machine. however I think I did a terrible mistake coping the PowerBook backup folder to external hard drive (Western Digital)without using superduper or other clone timemachine backup solutions.
That's a bit odd -- when you did the backups, where did you have Time Machine put them (before you copied them to the external drive)?
But you're right -- most likely, the backups were not copied properly.
I thought everything were smoothly copying the backup file to the external HD. Now after 1 and half bought my second Apple Laptop (Macbook unibody White 13.3) last night was trying to restore my old data (powerbook g4) data using - MAC OS X 10.6 INSTALLER DVD/ restore from time machine/ however the menu box doesn't recognize my external hard drive??? maybe I did something wrong?
You can't do a full system restore in this case anyway; that only works on the same or virtually identical Mac.
I hook up the external hard drive to my macbook and lunch one the partition drive (2 partition on my external HD)and went to the backup folder and my old directory along with the files/ back up dates show up there, but can't view it...please help I'm trying to recover my data.. ...
Have you already started using the new Mac? If so, connect the TM drive and right-click the Time Machine icon in the Dock and select the +*Browse Other Time Machine Disks+* option. If that shows the backups in the +Choose Time Machine Disk to Browse+ window, then your backups are recognized. If so, you have a few options, depending on whether you want to transfer all your apps, settings, users and data.
But most likely, they won't be recognized as Time Machine backups. You may be able to recover some things, but it's going to be difficult.
Post back with the results and your desires, and we'll go further.

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