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Snow Leopard to Yosemite - no joy.
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1622363"><p>As pm-r says, CCC is Carbon Copy Cloner and SD! is Super Duper!. Both are cloning software that copies drives. </p><p></p><p>Great that you got a boot drive. Let me address your questions in order:</p><p></p><p>1. Mount and open the external drive where the earlier backup is. Look to see if it looks OK (try opening a file, or viewing a picture or just survey the directory). If it's good, no reason to do it again. If it's not good, then by all means repeat the process. You need a backup. </p><p></p><p>2. Yes, you'll need to reformat the drive, but that can be part of the install process. When prompted, partition and format the drive you are installing to. That'll trigger all the cleanup you'll need (and wipe out everything in the process).</p><p></p><p>3. Yes, but you can format/install all in one go.</p><p></p><p>4. At this point I think that is going to be difficult, unless your backup has that information on it. You may get lucky, but be prepared to spend some time doing that customization.</p><p></p><p>5. Ouch. MS and Adobe are sticky as they use "activation" processes to allow the software to run. Normally you wold de-activate the software, which tells the mothership that you have stopped using the license, then re-activate it after an install. Can you see those applications on the internal drive when booted from the external? (Look in /Users/<your account>/Applications, if you can get there?) If you can run them, then you can try to run them, write down the activation codes from the screens that may show them (you'll need them), then de-activate and you'll be fine. Otherwise you'll have to either do without, or maybe try calling Microsoft/Adobe and throwing yourself on their mercy, explaining what has happened to see if they can de-activate them so you can re-activate them. Adobe helped me out with that a couple of weeks ago. I think I had to convince them I was who I claimed I was, but it wasn't that painful.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with it!</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Now that you can boot and see the backup drive, is it bootable? How did you make the backup? What did you backup? Since you didn't know what CCC and SD! were, I assume the backup is NOT a bootable clone. It's been a long time since I last worked with SL, but I remember installing from a disc, so I don't think it's (legally) downloadable (and I would NOT trust any illegal download). But if you used TM and if it backed up everything, you could try to see if the Yosemite TM can restore a SL backup. DOn't know if that works, but nothing tried, nothing gained..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1622363"] As pm-r says, CCC is Carbon Copy Cloner and SD! is Super Duper!. Both are cloning software that copies drives. Great that you got a boot drive. Let me address your questions in order: 1. Mount and open the external drive where the earlier backup is. Look to see if it looks OK (try opening a file, or viewing a picture or just survey the directory). If it's good, no reason to do it again. If it's not good, then by all means repeat the process. You need a backup. 2. Yes, you'll need to reformat the drive, but that can be part of the install process. When prompted, partition and format the drive you are installing to. That'll trigger all the cleanup you'll need (and wipe out everything in the process). 3. Yes, but you can format/install all in one go. 4. At this point I think that is going to be difficult, unless your backup has that information on it. You may get lucky, but be prepared to spend some time doing that customization. 5. Ouch. MS and Adobe are sticky as they use "activation" processes to allow the software to run. Normally you wold de-activate the software, which tells the mothership that you have stopped using the license, then re-activate it after an install. Can you see those applications on the internal drive when booted from the external? (Look in /Users/<your account>/Applications, if you can get there?) If you can run them, then you can try to run them, write down the activation codes from the screens that may show them (you'll need them), then de-activate and you'll be fine. Otherwise you'll have to either do without, or maybe try calling Microsoft/Adobe and throwing yourself on their mercy, explaining what has happened to see if they can de-activate them so you can re-activate them. Adobe helped me out with that a couple of weeks ago. I think I had to convince them I was who I claimed I was, but it wasn't that painful. Good luck with it! EDIT: Now that you can boot and see the backup drive, is it bootable? How did you make the backup? What did you backup? Since you didn't know what CCC and SD! were, I assume the backup is NOT a bootable clone. It's been a long time since I last worked with SL, but I remember installing from a disc, so I don't think it's (legally) downloadable (and I would NOT trust any illegal download). But if you used TM and if it backed up everything, you could try to see if the Yosemite TM can restore a SL backup. DOn't know if that works, but nothing tried, nothing gained.. [/QUOTE]
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