When restoring accidently pulled out the time machine HD
Well I got my computer back from apple and it had a new HDD in it luckily I have time machine and had my backup done before I sent it to them. I was setting it up and chose to restore from my time machine and it was less than one minute and i touched the usb wire, not intending to take it out but a thing came up and said you unsafely removed the device dadadada... so I ended up having to make a new account because when i pressed retry it wanted to put the info ontop of what i already did and i would have -39gb left lol... I need to know how to get out of this mess so i can just clear everything and use time machine so i have a clone of what my laptop used to be...
RDFiorentino wrote:
I can't find my install disks for that computer... I have the ones for my mac pro but they don't work on my macbook pro... any other ways
no. you need to find your install disk if you want to get a copy of your old system. you need your install disk anyway for various other things so i recommend you find it.
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