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thenbagis

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 17, 2009
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Philly
I'm not at the position to need this yet, but with all the talk about lion boot discs/drives, etc... I thought it would be a good time to ask.

When i upgraded to my current hard drive I was able to start the macbook up with the SL disc and my external hard drive (time machine) hooked up and do a restore to the most recent backup. This definitely made upgrading my hard drive very easy.

In the future when I decide to install that SSD and want to restore my most recent backup from time machine, how would I do that? A usb drive with the boot loaded (a la https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/08/apple-releases-utility-to-create-lion-recovery-usb-key/)

I think that's the case, but thought it was a good question to ask.

btw... I haven't upgraded to Lion yet, waiting for 10.7.1, so I can still do this if needed: http://lifehacker.com/5823096/how-to-burn-your-own-lion-install-dvd-or-flash-drive
 

DustinT

macrumors 68000
Feb 26, 2011
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Lifehacker's instructions would be the best way to handle this. If you created a USB restore disk you'd have to boot on that and then download the entire Lion installer again.
 
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