Hello all,
I purchased Snow Leopard yesterday hoping to install it without any kinks. I normally use Time Machine with a 100 GB Seagate external hard drive, though, because of the lack of USB ports on a MacBook Pro (and my lazy self), I haven't done that in somewhere close to 100 days. So (wanting that extra HD space Snow Leopard gives) I attempted to once again back everything up so I could format my Mac's hard drive before the 10.6 installation. Time Machine wouldn't let me. It told me there was not enough space on the drive, though simple subtraction told me there clearly was. So after many restarts and failed attempts, I decided to format the Seagate and drag and drop my Mac's drive onto the Seagate. Success.
After the copy had finished, I went ahead and installed Snow Leopard. I chose the option to format the Mac's hard drive and install it as if on a new computer. After the installation finished, I opened up Migration Assistant to load all my old files. However, Migration Assistant would not recognize the external hard drive as a valid transfer disk.
After doing my research with Google, and trying to manually transfer everything (which left me trying to discern which applications were different between 10.5 and 10.6, and frustrated in general) I've learned that my problem was failing to make the Seagate bootable (which would've required a shareware app, since Time Machine repeatedly was letting me down).
So, I come to you all for help.
Much gratitude in advance,
Stuart
I purchased Snow Leopard yesterday hoping to install it without any kinks. I normally use Time Machine with a 100 GB Seagate external hard drive, though, because of the lack of USB ports on a MacBook Pro (and my lazy self), I haven't done that in somewhere close to 100 days. So (wanting that extra HD space Snow Leopard gives) I attempted to once again back everything up so I could format my Mac's hard drive before the 10.6 installation. Time Machine wouldn't let me. It told me there was not enough space on the drive, though simple subtraction told me there clearly was. So after many restarts and failed attempts, I decided to format the Seagate and drag and drop my Mac's drive onto the Seagate. Success.
After the copy had finished, I went ahead and installed Snow Leopard. I chose the option to format the Mac's hard drive and install it as if on a new computer. After the installation finished, I opened up Migration Assistant to load all my old files. However, Migration Assistant would not recognize the external hard drive as a valid transfer disk.
After doing my research with Google, and trying to manually transfer everything (which left me trying to discern which applications were different between 10.5 and 10.6, and frustrated in general) I've learned that my problem was failing to make the Seagate bootable (which would've required a shareware app, since Time Machine repeatedly was letting me down).
So, I come to you all for help.
Much gratitude in advance,
Stuart
