I have a late 2009 imac and a 1 TB external hard drive currently being used for time machine. I want to do a clean install of Lion, but I want to save my important files.
Since I don't need anything stored in time machine, I was thinking of cloning my internal hard drive onto the external drive, clean installing lion, and manually picking the stuff I really need from the cloned drive. Once I have everything I need from the external drive, I would convert it back to time machine.
Will this work? and what is the best way to copy my files to the external drive? Should I just burn the whole thing using disk utility, or should I manually pick what I want to transfer?
Thanks!
Since I don't need anything stored in time machine, I was thinking of cloning my internal hard drive onto the external drive, clean installing lion, and manually picking the stuff I really need from the cloned drive. Once I have everything I need from the external drive, I would convert it back to time machine.
Will this work? and what is the best way to copy my files to the external drive? Should I just burn the whole thing using disk utility, or should I manually pick what I want to transfer?
Thanks!