It worked! Now how to get my apps etc off my stock 250GB

[bedouin]

So this two week saga.... may now be coming to an end.

Started with the spining beach ball of death in my old white Intel iMac that I had upgraded with a 1GB drive from OWC.

I cloned my old 250GB drive (which what probably casued the SBBOD) and all was fine for about a week then the spining beach ball of death started happening more and more often.

Long story short, new drive from OWC other drive was definately defective.

It was suggested here that I purchase Lion from the app store (as the only other OSX I had was 10.5). I did and made a bootable usb stick (that I originally had problems with but the new one I made the other day seems to have worked fine).

I am up and running with the new 1GB drive that is in an external case. Next step tomorrow will be to take out the old drive and send it back to OWC and put my new drive in.

Now I have to figure out how to get all my apps and fonts, email and other important stuff off my old stock 250GB drive and into the new 1 GB drive.

Any suggestions?

I have my stock drive and I can put thay into my external dockmaster and copy whatever I need.

Thank you.

Matthew

[DewGuy]

How to move data to your new Mac using Mountain Lion and earlier

[space-time]

You keep saying 1GB but it must be 1TB

[WHiiP]

At some point you need to realize that you have a 1TB drive and not a 1GB drive. That will be truly confusing in the future.

[Rolando]

My old White Intel iMac (5,1) is starting to have video issues, static boxes, lines across the screen. When you upgraded the drive, I hope you took the time to blow out the interior. Mine runs hot.

[jdc]

Rolando wrote:
My old White Intel iMac (5,1) is starting to have video issues, static boxes, lines across the screen. When you upgraded the drive, I hope you took the time to blow out the interior. Mine runs hot.

This would be a nice upgrade, talk them down $20

http://austin.craigslist.org/sys/4847997896.html

or down $75 on this one: http://austin.craigslist.org/sys/4845333144.html

or $300! down on this one: http://austin.craigslist.org/sys/4843877769.html

Ohh -- this one is a steal: http://austin.craigslist.org/sys/4832174806.html

[bedouin]

Yes, my apologies, it is a 1TB drive.

Thank you.

[bedouin]

Migration assistant seems to have frozen at 4 hours and 32 minutes.

Now I see the iSight camera on.

Not sure what to do at this point.

Unless I go and delte the new user that was being copied over with MA??

Then start again.

[Speedy]

DewGuy wrote:
How to move data to your new Mac using Mountain Lion and earlier

My sister bought a new MBP several years ago. It came with Mountain Lion. She was moving from a MBP core duo running Tiger. From DewGuy's link:

"Migration from Mac OS X Tiger v10.4 to OS X Mountain Lion v10.8 or later
Migrating from OS X Tiger v10.4 to OS X Mountain Lion v10.8 or later is not supported and is not expected to complete via Migration Assistant. For upgrades from OS X Tiger or older to OS X Mountain Lion or later, you can make a standard file sharing connection and manually copy your files."

She had bought AppleCare for her new MBP, and because she lives in Florida, we had to call Apple to register AppleCare, it couldn't be done on-line. After registering, I complained (nicely) that I thought it was un-Apple like that she couldn't use Migration Assistant from Tiger (this was when Apple was just becoming the Apple of today.). The AppleCare CSR asked me to hold, then came back a few minutes later and said they would send her a copy of Snow Leopard gratis so she could upgrade her old machine to a version with Migration Assistant that would work with the versionin Mountain Lion. Very nice! Obviously it helped that she had bought a new machine and had also bought AppleCare.

[Speedy]

bedouin wrote:
Migration assistant seems to have frozen at 4 hours and 32 minutes.

Now I see the iSight camera on.

Not sure what to do at this point.

Unless I go and delte the new user that was being copied over with MA??

Then start again.

Patience, grasshopper. Migration Assistant can take a very long time. Let it run overnight.