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I've just had a new hard drive in my MacBook. Luckily I had backed up everything to an external hard drive before the mac went wrong.
When I got home the mac started as new but when I got to the part to set up my mac from another device, and plugged in my external HD it was not listed.
I had to continue as a new set up thinking I could maybe set up later.
I updated the software, installed snow leopard, and updated again then tried to use migration assistant. Again it is not recognised it just has the spinning circle as if it is searching/waiting to find my external HD.
I don't understand why this is not working as the external HD shows up on the desktop and I can view the files in it.
I've seen some people said you can drag and drop, but I want to set up the computer with all my settings etc as it was before.
I know the external HD works as I used it to back up and set up as new when I installed snow leopard on my mac previously.
If anyone knows what I can do I would really appreciate it as my nearest apple store is 30 miles away, and I've had to go there and back twice already this week when having the new HD fitted!
Thanks in advance.
Vicki
When I got home the mac started as new but when I got to the part to set up my mac from another device, and plugged in my external HD it was not listed.
I had to continue as a new set up thinking I could maybe set up later.
I updated the software, installed snow leopard, and updated again then tried to use migration assistant. Again it is not recognised it just has the spinning circle as if it is searching/waiting to find my external HD.
I don't understand why this is not working as the external HD shows up on the desktop and I can view the files in it.
I've seen some people said you can drag and drop, but I want to set up the computer with all my settings etc as it was before.
I know the external HD works as I used it to back up and set up as new when I installed snow leopard on my mac previously.
If anyone knows what I can do I would really appreciate it as my nearest apple store is 30 miles away, and I've had to go there and back twice already this week when having the new HD fitted!
Thanks in advance.
Vicki