[macvoiceover] Re: hard drive

  • From: Robin Kipp <mlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 04:11:22 +0200

Hi Ricardo,
um, I don't think this would work! After all the Time Machine backup isn't 
bootable, and requires the Mac OS Lion installer to restore a backup. I'd 
suggest taking a hard drive and then splitting it into 2 partitions with Disk 
Utility: one 8gb partition and one with the remaining space. Then, reboot and 
boot from the recovery partition. Then, choose reinstall Mac OS X Lion (or 
whatever it's called) and install this to the 8gb partition of the external 
drive. Afterwards, the system should boot into the new installation, so just 
make sure everything's OK, then boot into the initial system running Lion. Once 
that's done, backup the old system using Time Machine, and save that on the 
other partition of the external hd. Then it's time to replace the internal hd. 
Afterwards, connect the external hd back to the Mac Book. The cool thing is 
that you will now have a recovery partition present on the external hd, so you 
can just boot from that and choose the option to restore the Time Machine 
backup onto your new drive. That's it!
Much easier done than said, actually. If you wanna be on the safe side though, 
you could still wait a few weeks until Lion can be purchased drive, though I 
think that's gonna cost another $69 or so.
Hth!
Robinfrom Apple on a thump>
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