Comments on: Hackintosh disaster recovery part 1 http://basshead.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/hackintosh-disaster-recovery-part-1/ Gadgets, Internet, Computers, Music. Where did it all go wrong? Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: basshead http://basshead.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/hackintosh-disaster-recovery-part-1/#comment-197 basshead Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:06:21 +0000 http://basshead.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-197 I used Migration Assistant to import an account over USB when I first moved to Leopard on my Macbook. My preferred method of upgrading is to wipe clean and start fresh, then import the account as this cleans out any built up junk and has proven to be the most reliable. I think I used USB to import a user account under Tiger but I'm not 100% sure my memory is correct on this. Advice when I first got a Macbook was to buy an external Firewire drive, as only Firewire was bootable. An article soon surfaced saying that USB also worked, which I tested and found to work fine. I don't know how far back these features go, but upgrading to a new Apple operating system is always an exercise of rediscovery. Resizeable on the fly partitions using Disk Utility is one of Leopards nice features. I used Migration Assistant to import an account over USB when I first moved to Leopard on my Macbook. My preferred method of upgrading is to wipe clean and start fresh, then import the account as this cleans out any built up junk and has proven to be the most reliable. I think I used USB to import a user account under Tiger but I’m not 100% sure my memory is correct on this.
Advice when I first got a Macbook was to buy an external Firewire drive, as only Firewire was bootable. An article soon surfaced saying that USB also worked, which I tested and found to work fine. I don’t know how far back these features go, but upgrading to a new Apple operating system is always an exercise of rediscovery. Resizeable on the fly partitions using Disk Utility is one of Leopards nice features.

]]> By: joel http://basshead.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/hackintosh-disaster-recovery-part-1/#comment-194 joel Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:18:10 +0000 http://basshead.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-194 Hmm, I didn't know that Migration Utility supported USB. Is this a new feature of 10.5.2 to accommodate the MBA? Hmm, I didn’t know that Migration Utility supported USB. Is this a new feature of 10.5.2 to accommodate the MBA?

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