I currently have a 2007 Mac Pro (intel). I hope soon to buy one of the latest 2009 Mac Pros. My question is: Can I move my existing system drive (10.6.2) to my new mac? Will the 2009 Mac Pro boot from it? I know this would not work on a windows machine as chip specific drivers get added at install time, but I was hoping I could get away with it with a Mac.
View 4 RepliesI've had my Macbook for just a month now. When I first got it, I wasn't able to move any files to my Western Digital External (that works with my previous blackbook) and my other external. It says The item '(item name)' could not be moved because 'System' (or other folder name) cannot be modified. iWork 09 and Virtual Dj don't work either. I want to reformat the hdd, but I can't do that until I backup everything, which I can't do. I tried the second solution "Type this, followed by Return: sh /etc/rc" and my Mac said could not find this directory.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm buying a brand new hardrive for my 13inch macbook, but need to know the best way to move data from my old drive including the operating system Lion
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have a Dual 1.8 G5 and my hard drive has started to make a clicking sound every now and then. I believe it may be on the verge of dying anyday. Since i have space to put in another internal hard drive i am planning to get a WD Black Caviar 1TB and put it in.
Now my question is how do i move all my application from the old internal drive to the new internal drive.From what i have researched it seems that using a enclosure is the way to go but all the info i have seen is referring to replacing the drive rather adding a new one.I would like to move everything to the new drive and make that a master.What is the best way to perform this task?
how to move to iCloud on my Mac when the icon is not in System Preferences?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
if i want to go from tiger to snow leopard , what do i have to do?do i have to buy leopard first and then the upgrade? im just wondering because some people says about doing a clean install of sl , o if you do a clean isntall i guess it really doesnt matter if u got leopard or no .
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have a mac performa (1997 running mac OS 9) hard disk and i want to move its files to a macbook pro (early 2011 running Mac OS X 10.6.8) how can i do this operation? and if i can, will the files on the hard disk be executable? i have some filemaker pro 2 documents that i need, will i be able to view them?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have late 2007 Mac mini and I have Snow Leopard installed and I was simply watching a Youtube video and then all of a sudden the entire system freezes (couldn't move the mouse) or anything and started choking on the audio (replaying a bit over and over)... had to manually power it off. The hard drive was replaced several months ago at the Apple Store... so I doubt it's the HD. The Mini is back on now of course... it's running fine, but I've never seen anything like that before. Anyone else ever have this issue?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI purchased a GoFlex Desk for Mac with the FW800 adapter. No issues with stability or performance.The only thing that is weird is related to deletion of files:
1) When I set a program to auto-clean files (for example, deleting source rar files after unpacking) it doesn't work
2) Whenever I try to delete a file, I get a warning that "This cannot be undone", and it's doing a permanent delete rather than moving it to trash.I've verified that I'm not using any Seagate drivers, and the drive shows up as the "Orange" generic external drive.
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GoFlex Desk, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I upgrade to a new drive - MACOS Lion installed?
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itunes, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I currently have 2 drives installed in my MBP 15" i7, via Optibay kit. I have OSX on the main drive, and Windows 7 on the optibay drive. I'm attempting to upgrade/replace the optibay drive.So, I've used Winclone to clone the optibay drive, I have restored it on my new drive, and installed the new drive in place of the old one in the optibay.When I boot OSX, I can see the new bootcamp drive and all its contents. But when I attempt to boot windows, I just get a black screen with a blinking white cursor in the upper left corner
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am running out of space on my Unibody MBP (June 2009 version). I just bought an OWC 120gb SSD, with the intention of putting it where my disk drive is, using their data doubler (which makes it fit).
I want to use the SSD as my startup disk, but have heard that if you use the drive which is connected where the old disk drive used to be as the start up disk, there are problems with the computer waking from sleep, unless you turn off hibernation.
So instead, I want to move my current hard drive to the disk drive slot, and put the SSD in the main slot.
If I were to do this, would I need to do any "extra" configuring besides setting the SSD as my startup disk?
After moving my harddrive to the disk drive slot, will it boot up normally, and then I can just add the SSD?
There have been a few threads about how to move a time machine backup to a new disk and maintain the existing backups. Some have done this with carbon copy cloner.
This also works with the built in disk utility in Leopard. I turned off time machine first. Then I booted with the Leopard install DVD and ran disk utility. I partitioned the new disk and gave it the same name as the old time machine drive (not sure if that's necessary). I then used the restore function to clone the old time machine disk to the new one. I rebooted, turned time machine back on and it picked up where it left off. The first backup with the new drive took a little longer than expected considering nothing had really changed but all the prior backup data is intact as if nothing had changed.
I'm transferring my OX onto a new hard drive so am going to move the slots so the new main HD is in Bay 1.
Do I physically move them all first, then restore using the disk utility or do I physically move them after restoring?
In physically moving a hard drive are there any settings that need changing?
2x160 GB drives in a RAID-0 holding my boot driveI want to move it do: A) Ideally 2x250 GB drives in a RAID-0 or B) A 400 GB drive.I've tried:Straight up copying/restoring in Disk Utilit Carbon Copy Cloner File-levelCarbon Copy Cloner Block-levelI can copy everything, but I wind up not having the system recognize the new drive(s) as a boot drive.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi got me a new MAC after 10 years of windows. now i'm in the ****** situation that i can not even move a simple jpeg from my MACto a Harddrive. it says : `this item could not be moved because '' Motive '' cannot be modefied. In the old days this was an easy thing to do , move a jpeg from my PC to a connected Harddrive. now with that brandnew mac i can do nothin. does anyone else encounter such a thing and maybe solve it ??
View 24 Replies View RelatedI'm thinking about moving from a Mac Pro with SSD. I'm not comfortable doing an SSD install on the iMac, so wondering how much of a drop off I'd experience going from an SSD to the iMac's hard drive.
View 3 Replies View RelatedCurrently, I have a 160GB Intel G2 SSD in my 15" MBP. When Intel releases the 320GB version soon, the 160GB will move to my wife's 13" MBP.
Except for the few titles, the software we use are identical (The software we have is all "multiple copy" versions).
To avoid reinstalling Snow Leopard and the programs again, I would like to just install the SSD to the 13" MBP and make some changes (e.g., changing accounts in Mail, loading different set of Firefox bookmarks, etc etc). It seems like the name and the password of the Admin account can be changed under "user accounts" as well.
so I know it is possible to move a users home folder which includes the dekstop. But would it be possible to only move the desktop to another drive? If so, how would you do that?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've studied the forums & there's lots of discussion about having to install SL, then download Lion (again) then other thread says to copy the downloaded Lion (in the Apps folder) to an 8gb thumb drive, etc, etc. I'm installing a new 512GB SSD in bay-4 so that's where I'd like to move Lion. Is RE-INSTALL really necessary to simply move it to another drive?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI want to move the contents, including the OS, of the main hard drive on my 2 X 3 Ghz Dual core Intel Xeon Mac Pro. The drive is too small for any additional software, so I want to move it to a much larger internal drive. I am not able to use Carbon Copy Cloner.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI just got a Mac Pro with a 250GB SSD drive and 2 1TB drives. I planned to use the 250GB drive for the OS and the other two drives for all my data. How do I move the location of Documents, Music, Pictures...? In Windows, you can move the folder location, but I'm not sure if you can do this w OSX.
If this isn't possible, what's the best way to keep my data off the 250GB drive?
I have a win 7 installation on its own drive in my mac pro. I now need to move it to a new hard drive.
In mac I would use super duper or carbon copy cloner to just copy the lot onto another drive whilst making it bootable. How would I do this with the windows drive?
I am on a mac pro and I can navigate my OS drive fine in terminal but I have 3 other hard drives how to I go from my OS hard drive to one of my other hard drives?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to move your existing full Time Machine backup to a new drive, so you don't have to create a new full backup? Specifically, I'd like to move a sparsebundle network backup from one drive to another.
View 24 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to move a 60 GB file from my external drive to my MacBook. I have 100 GB left on my MacBook. When I try moving the file to my MacBook, after over an hour of it "preparing to copy" 2 Million files, it tells me that there is not enough space.This is ******** because I have almost double the amount of space left on my HDD. How can I fix this problem?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI am planning to move my SSD drive from my MBP into an iMac. If i do this, will it boot, or will I need to format and reinstall everything? (i understand its a 2.5" drive, that isn't an issue I have a caddy)
View 3 Replies View Relatedjust bought a new hard drive from OWC 500 GB 7200rpm, want to install it in my 15in unibody macbook pro june 2009. Bought the kit that came w/ the inclosure so i can turn my old drive into an external.
Here's my question
is there a way i can move all my data to my new hard drive before putting it into the computer, so once its in its ready to go? I don't have the leopard disc w/ me. I left it at home and didn't bring it back to school w/ me.
I have XP on a 1 TB HDD (only about 80 GB is used) and I want to move it to a 120 GB partition on an SSD and boot from there.
This would be trivial in OSX - just use carbon copy. But, I can't get it done using Acronis True Image 2010 or any other utility I've tried while in XP. Everything wants to clone the entire 1 TB and not simply the 80ish GB of files.
What should I use to accomplish my goal (or what must I do different with Acronis)?
I want to purchase some high quality music videos on the iTunes store. Then I want to store them on a USB drive which will be used to upload the music videos to my BMW iDrive system. Can this be done?
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