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ruffNstuff

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Oct 18, 2009
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I just got a new 2TB hard drive for use with Time Machine, and boot camp, to replace my old 400gig portable one. How do I move my old backups over? Whenever I try I get the message

The item “____________ _________’s MacBook Pro” can’t be moved because “Backups.backupdb” can’t be modified.

Any Ideas? :apple::apple::apple::apple:
 
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misterredman

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Oct 3, 2007
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ruffNstuff said:
I just got a new 2TB hard drive for use with Time Machine, and boot camp, to replace my old 400gig portable one. How do I move my old backups over? Whenever I try I get the message

The item “____________ _________’s MacBook Pro” can’t be moved because “Backups.backupdb” can’t be modified.

Any Ideas? :apple::apple::apple::apple:
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As far as the TM backup goes you should be able to clone the old drive to a partition on the new one with Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper.
 
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ruffNstuff

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 18, 2009
9
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USA
Sorry

After combing through our forms as well as apple support I gave up and created this thread.....

After looking around on my mac I found Migration Assistant.... its in the utilities folder (lots of cool stuff there) it moves the backup but i cant make it send the backup to my new drive
 
killerwhack

killerwhack

macrumors regular
Aug 5, 2004
237
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Los Angeles, California
mister redman is right

You will want to get super duper or a cloning program that can re-create the existing partition on the new drive. I have done this and it took 24 hours for 800 gigabytes of material.
 
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