How to restore from copy of HD when OS was Snow Leopard?
I was running Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 17, 4 GB 1333MHz DDR3. Finally vintage of computer and vintage of OS collided and I had to backup my files by copying my laptop's hard drive to an external hard drive. (Time Machine would not work.) Erased laptop HD and Apple Genious bar did a clean install of Mavericks 10.9. I would now like to restore files (Users, etc.). Can SetUp Assistant or Migration Assistant be used to do this from the folder which is the copy of my Snow Leopard hard drive?
curious r wrote:
So far I have looked at "Carbon Copy Clone" which does not seem to work for me as it seems to need a partitioned HD to copy it to.
Wrong. CCC will allow cloning to a single partition. See this if you wish to preserve the files currently on the ext HD.
With Disk Utility, you can dynamically create and delete partitions.
I realize that CCC is uncomplicated and free software
Not any longer. CCC 3.5+ is now a commercial product. See product information for details.
I suggest that you start over with Disk Utility by wiping the ext HD, reformatting it with the GUID scheme, and creating the required partitions. I suggest one for Lion, one for ML, and one for your Music, Pictures, and important file folder. Make the OS partitions about 50% larger than what they are now. BTW, if those include your Music, Pictures, and important file folder, that might be overdoing things and all you'll need is two, one for each OS. Then, use CCC or other cloning app to make bootable clones of Lion to the partitions and then upgrade one of them to ML. I have partitioned my int HD and have bootable OSs and their clones, two each for SL, Lion, and ML. That's duplicated on two ext FWHDs.
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