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<blockquote data-quote="greyhound rick" data-source="post: 1703538" data-attributes="member: 147622">Thank you Patrick!You were exactly right! Even though the tutorials I read indicated that a usb drive with 8+ gig would suffice (I used a 16gig) I found that I had to use a 32gig jump drive to get this done.I went thru the process and now have Yosemite OS X installed on the 32gig usb drive. When I use the usb drive to boot on the MBP that Im currently working on for my friend Im getting the default Yosemite desktop as if it were a clean install so I'm assuming that when I swap the old hard drive out for the new solid state drive that after booting with this newly created usb drive that I will then use the Migration Assistant to transfer the Time Machine files/apps to the new SSD. Is that correct?Would there ever be a situation where I would want to use this newly created usb boot drive on a Mac that already has files/apps on it? I was thinking maybe if for some reason the start up portion of the MBP was damaged that this would do the trick. I would just have to migrate the files/apps from a Time Machine back up after using the usb boot drive. Is that correct?Thanks so much for helping me!best,rick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="greyhound rick, post: 1703538, member: 147622"] Thank you Patrick! You were exactly right! Even though the tutorials I read indicated that a usb drive with 8+ gig would suffice (I used a 16gig) I found that I had to use a 32gig jump drive to get this done. I went thru the process and now have Yosemite OS X installed on the 32gig usb drive. When I use the usb drive to boot on the MBP that Im currently working on for my friend Im getting the default Yosemite desktop as if it were a clean install so I'm assuming that when I swap the old hard drive out for the new solid state drive that after booting with this newly created usb drive that I will then use the Migration Assistant to transfer the Time Machine files/apps to the new SSD. Is that correct? Would there ever be a situation where I would want to use this newly created usb boot drive on a Mac that already has files/apps on it? I was thinking maybe if for some reason the start up portion of the MBP was damaged that this would do the trick. I would just have to migrate the files/apps from a Time Machine back up after using the usb boot drive. Is that correct? Thanks so much for helping me! best, rick [/QUOTE]

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