I'm having some issues installing a time machine backup of mountain lion on to a new internal drive that I installed on my MBP. I'll list the steps that I went through I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.
1. Swapped drives, All went well
2. Turned on computer with snow leopard start up disc, which is what came with my computer. Used disc utility to format drive. 1 partition mac extended journaled/guid under options.
3. After that was finished I went back into utilites and selected restore from time machine backup. I clicked through the menu and it started to restore after a few hours it crashed and gave a warning saying error unable to restore from time machine backup. I tried the same thing three more times with the same result.
4. Next I reinstalled snow leopard and planned to use migration assistant to get the data from the time machine backup...this didn't work either as an error came up saying you cannot restore from a time machine backup that has mountain lion on it to a computer that has snow leopard.
5. Last step was I remembered that mountain lion can reinstall the OS via the apple server so I held command R and went through the steps...another error came up saying this computer is not recognized as owning a copy of mountain lion. I'm guessing it doesn't see it on the new hard drive since it was fresh out of the box and mountain lion was installed on the old drive and the TM backup.
6. So I've swapped drives again so I can use my computer. I'm not sure where to go for here. I'm hoping ome of you guys could offer a little help.
Dom
1. Swapped drives, All went well
2. Turned on computer with snow leopard start up disc, which is what came with my computer. Used disc utility to format drive. 1 partition mac extended journaled/guid under options.
3. After that was finished I went back into utilites and selected restore from time machine backup. I clicked through the menu and it started to restore after a few hours it crashed and gave a warning saying error unable to restore from time machine backup. I tried the same thing three more times with the same result.
4. Next I reinstalled snow leopard and planned to use migration assistant to get the data from the time machine backup...this didn't work either as an error came up saying you cannot restore from a time machine backup that has mountain lion on it to a computer that has snow leopard.
5. Last step was I remembered that mountain lion can reinstall the OS via the apple server so I held command R and went through the steps...another error came up saying this computer is not recognized as owning a copy of mountain lion. I'm guessing it doesn't see it on the new hard drive since it was fresh out of the box and mountain lion was installed on the old drive and the TM backup.
6. So I've swapped drives again so I can use my computer. I'm not sure where to go for here. I'm hoping ome of you guys could offer a little help.
Dom