If it has the same name as an account already on your Mac, you're prompted to either rename the old account or replace the one on your Mac. If you rename, the old account will appear as a separate user on your Mac, with a separate home folder and login. If you replace, the old account will delete and then replace the account on your Mac, including everything in its home folder.
Click Continue to start the transfer. Large transfers might need several hours to complete. Published Date: November 12, However I still don't see an EFI Boot option on the startup manager screen nor on the startup disk preference screen. I'm not sure if it's because my MBP is too old or I missed some important step.
Any advice would be appreciated. By the way, backup content is fully accessible in macOS Recovery so the drive itself should be fine as well. Dan danj. Self employed contract worker. First Lion Now you added a wrinkle here by encrypting your drive via Disk Utility you run the risk of not being able to regain access.
Right now you appear to still have access as the key which is imbedded in your internal drive. Make sure your data is safe before moving forward! I would recommend you upgrade to at least Mavericks. It will make upgrading much faster and offer you a means to boot up your drive just in case.
This is one of the better ones: Concealer sadly Apple still does not offer external drive support with FileVault2 yet. Hi Dan, thanks a lot for all the suggestions. This makes sure your OS X is functioning well before you back it up, otherwise there can be some problems.
Run the backup software often The most important thing about backing up is to do it regularly. When the backup is finished, select Machintosh HD, and restart. You will now be running from your main computer again. You might want to print these instructions out , so they are handy in an emergency. Any advice on how i can run my external as the startup? You can boot off any bootable backup though even a USB system installer thumb drive and then restore from time machine. Question: I have an unused external 1TB drive.
My new internal HD currently reports Am thinking that once I have a separate TM external drive which seems to be the reco that I can erase the old bootable clone from the old external hard drive and create a new bootable clone of the current system there?
Or will it not do that bc the new internal is 1TB even though the actual usage on it is far less?? I guess for right this moment I want TM to start running. If I need to purchase another external HD I will. Yes and yes to both those questions.
But Time Machine will start deleting older backups when the drive is full. So the larger the drive, the further back the backups will go. Really helpful. I also recommend that you can use your old PC act as the external disk. Use an application called Mac time capsule, it enables time machine backup mac to pc. You can download the software from many download website.
I read that some are not able to boot macs. I have two old Seagate drives that connect via USB2. Will they work? I have done it a while back on for Windows Server for Admins. You could create a deployable backup of a machine that only re-ran the last few OS installations steps of HW discovery when you started it up on a new machine.
I did copious or so I thought research on how to proceed and went with the SuperDuper clone route. Everything worked great…until I connected to TimeMachine. It deleted ALL of my old backups some of which went back years!! The backup requires I bought a new external HD yesterday and will be using this from now on for TimeMachine so this is all semantics but what went wrong? Nobody ever said to expect or plan for this.
Thanks for any insights you can provide. Yes it tries to start a new set of backups if you replace your drive. This may help. Thanks for your reply. I checked in the backups. As a comparison, a separate external drive I use for my work Mac has multiple folders dated for each backup.
Oh well, live and learn. I have a TM external backup from earlier today but nothing cloned from internal HD, so not sure how I can get the internal HD back as a Startup volume to boot from.
Otherwise get to a friends mac and make a bootable usb stick. Then restore form time machine. Hi, I am looking at buying an external hard drive to both backup and incase of internal hard drive failure to boot from external drive. I want to use Carbon copy and they have insisted that the external hard drive needs to be able to reboot OSX. You can just re-format it as Macintosh using Disk Utility after you get it. I feel a lot of the current hard drive is full with unknowns.
I clicked on the EHD - It looked like it was going boot start-up , but it just went to a screen with a window giving me several choices - none of which were to start-up. Previously when using Tiger, I used a third party software to make copies of my HD which were bootable - I did try using the same software with Mavericks, the copy was made to my EHD, but the same thing happened as with Time Machine.
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks Posted on Mar 15, PM. Page content loaded. Except for the recovery partition, Time Machine backups aren't bootable until restored. Mar 15, PM. You should be aware that a Time Machine backup is not bootable.
It does have a bootable, hidden copy of the Recovery HD installed on your computer. If you wish to boot from it in order to fully restore a Time Machine backup, then:.
If you don't have a Recovery HD on the Time Machine backup from which to boot, then what you do next depends on whether your computer came with Lion or later pre-installed or not. Assuming the former:. Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Wait patiently - minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one. Note : You will need an active Internet connection.
I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. The third-party software I've been using for several years is SpeedTools - Qiuckback.
It has worked very well making bootable. The best tool for cloning is Disk Utility which clones both the system volume as well as the Recovery HD automatically in a single operation.
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