How can I get my previous system to work with my new Macbook Pro?

[jbrown]

I have just bought a new MBP.

On my old MBP ( 2010 ) - I was running Lion 10.7.4 ( latest ).

I have taken out my old hard disk from my old MBP - to use it as an external drive - so I have a complete copy of my files. I want to be able to boot from this drive.

Unfortunately - the new MBP won't recognise the drive as bootable* ( it mounts fine and I see all my files ).


I want to 'update' the system on this drive so it will run on the new MBP.

Is this possible and if so how?

Many thanks




* As I understand it - this is due to the new MBP having a different chipset etc.
making the system from my old MBP not functional ( despite being the latest ).

 

[Mal]

Boot from your Recovery Partition and reinstall Lion onto that external drive. The MBPR ships with a special build of 10.7.4, which can only be installed through their own Recovery Partition.

jW

 

[jbrown]

Thanks for the reply - I've found it's a special build much to my frustration.

I had thought about doing what you said - but don't really want a fresh install - I want all my programs / settings to run as they are now from my external drive.

Any way to do this?

 

[jbrown]

By the way - it's not a Macbook Pro retina...but the latest 2.6 15" one I have

 

[MRiOS]

Why not run the migration assistant to transfer your files and apps to the new HDD? You can then reformat the old HDD and use it for storing files.