Migration Assistant freezing???

[bedouin]

Maybe my set up is impossible.

Just went thru installing the new (replacement) 1TB drive in my old white Intel iMac. Installed Lion (highest it will run) successfully with a USB stick.

Now I want to install some of my information, applications, settings, email, etc onto the new drive from my old stock drive.

The old stock drive is in a usb DockMaster. Mounts fine and have even been running this old iMac for two weeks off the external stock drive while waiting on OWC to send me a replacement drive.

So twice today I have tried MA. It seems to get to a certain point and then stalls.

Normally when data transfer is happening the DockMaster's blue light flashes and you can hear the drive running. Nothing is happening and MA says 6 hours and 43 minutes. It's said that for awhile now.

Maybe the USB is too slow.

Any other thoughts on how to get my stuff on the the new drive?

[Onamuji]

1. Let it go all night if necessary. Sometimes it seems to stall for up to a few hours, then finishes.

2. You had a failing hard drive at some point in the mix. You may have bad data on the clone that's screwing up the migration in which case you may have to migrate via good old drag-n-drop.

[bedouin]

Now on the thrid attempt I thought I would transfer only settings thru MA but when I just went to wake up the iMac (the screen blacks out, maybe it should not go into this sleep mode??) it will not wake up and my spinning beach ball is there.

The frist 1TB drive did have issues and my stock 250Gb seems to work fine as I have been using it for the past couple of weeks booting and running this imac externally.

I am running out of desire to get this iMac up and running before work on Monday.....

[bedouin]

I guess for now if I can export out my email accounts and I have a copy of MS Office I could survive.

I remember some kind of app that would take out an app with all the associated file and then you put it on a flash drive and copy it over to your new drive. Anyone remember that one?

[hal]

Didn't some older macs have issues with the new Advanced Format drives (has an AF logo on it somewhere)? That might be an issue here.