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Re: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

twitter-745103 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:26:01 -0000

"And that should have read BOAT not BOOT..."

If you're canadian, it works just as well. ;)

Re: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

lairdo — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:50:22 -0000

Thanks so much for this write up and for including the problems section which I needed. Took the afternoon to copy over, but everything appears fine.

Re: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

amplifryer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:01:40 -0000

I'm upgrading a 12" 1.33 G4 iBook with a new 160GB drive and (before I read this) started by formatting the drive with the disk utility and now I've got time machine sending all the old data to the new drive (connected with a USB cable to a portable drive case). My plan is to take the new disk with all the backed up stuff and install it right into the computer. After reading your article, it seems like I should have just put the blank disk in the computer and used the OSX disk to reinstall everything from another time machine drive. Whatd'ya think? Am I wasting my time?

Re: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

twitter-17116154 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:08:11 -0000

And that should have read BOAT not BOOT...

Re: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

twitter-17116154 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:07:18 -0000

Microsoft missed the boot on disk formats!

After remounting and selecting Erase Destination, it's working! Awesome, I love Macs!

Thanks for the tutorial!

Re: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

Seb — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:20:38 -0000

That was easy - thanks for the step by step tutorial, it works great!!!!

Re: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

cybersaurabh — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:57:41 -0000

Good advice. Mac OSX rocks.

Re: How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

ampressman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:14:17 -0000

Great advice - thanks. In my case, going from a 500 GB drive to a 2 TB drive, it took the Disk Utility seven (!!) hours to copy and and verify the data. Yipes. But all worked fine after that. I wrote it up on my blog at http://gravitationalpull.net/wp/?p=716