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Hi all,
My MBP HD is fritzy, and needs to be replaced. I use Time Machine to keep a whole system image (i.e. I only exclude ~/Downloads and ~/Movies)
Since I have a compatible HD off an old MacBook, I was thinking of mounting it externally, and using Disk Utility to image it with the latest backup contained in my Time Machine sparsebundle, located on our Time Capsule.
However, I obviously can't just image it w/the entire sparsebundle, and Migration Assistant only works if this new HD already has OS X installed on it. Finally, I WOULD simply replace my soon-to-die HD with this working one, boot off my OS X install CD, and take it from there, but my optical drive doesn't work. =/
Thoughts? You'd think this would be easy, logically it's a piece of cake, yet lo & behold...
My MBP HD is fritzy, and needs to be replaced. I use Time Machine to keep a whole system image (i.e. I only exclude ~/Downloads and ~/Movies)
Since I have a compatible HD off an old MacBook, I was thinking of mounting it externally, and using Disk Utility to image it with the latest backup contained in my Time Machine sparsebundle, located on our Time Capsule.
However, I obviously can't just image it w/the entire sparsebundle, and Migration Assistant only works if this new HD already has OS X installed on it. Finally, I WOULD simply replace my soon-to-die HD with this working one, boot off my OS X install CD, and take it from there, but my optical drive doesn't work. =/
Thoughts? You'd think this would be easy, logically it's a piece of cake, yet lo & behold...