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migrating to lion using an external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Ecgþeow" data-source="post: 1265040" data-attributes="member: 143096"><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ecgþeow, post: 1265040, member: 143096"] 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! [/QUOTE]
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