[macvoiceover] Re: hard drive
- From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:26:04 -0400
Hi,
I'm assuming he still has is SL disk. With this assumption wouldn't restoring
from the time machine back up with the SL DVD also restore the hidden Lion
recovery partition?
Thanks.
Ricardo Walker
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On Jul 31, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Robin Kipp wrote:
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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