[Ti] moving from Titanium to Albook

[Steve Martin]

I did almost exactly what was described, except I used Retrospect.

I put the new AlBook in Firewire mode and connected it to my old TiBook.
I ran Retrospect and did a mirror backup to the AlBook drive.
I then booted the AlBook and all was well.

It should work fine.  If it doesn't.  Your AlBook comes with a restore 
DVD that will get it back running again.

On May 1, 2004, at 10:13 AM, B Forbes wrote:

> I'll be replacing a Titanium running 10.3.3 with a new 1.5 Albook 
> shortly.  The Titanium bit the dust following an unfortunate slippage 
> from a carrying case resulting in a 3 foot drop to a hard floor.  
> Fortunately, a specific rider
> on this laptop added to my home owner's insurance policy is picking up 
> the entire amount for what I had it insured.
>
> Also, fortunately I had the OS X drive backed up on an external LaCie 
> firewire drive as a bootable drive with Synchronize Pro X from Qdea 
> software. I visited their website for moving all information from the 
> backup to another laptop and this is what it says.
> --------------
> Restoring to a PowerBook
>
> How do I copy an OS X system from my current computer to the internal 
> disk of my new PowerBook ? 
>
> A: Follow these steps...
>
> Make the PowerBook act like a FireWire disk drive.
>
> 1. Start up the new PowerBook while holding down the "T" key. This 
> causes the new PowerBook to start up and act like a FireWire hard 
> disk. When the PowerBook starts up, you'll see a dancing FireWire 
> symbol on the screen.
>
> 2. Connect the new PowerBook to your ent computer with a FireWire 
> cable. You'll see the disk on the new PowerBook appear  on the desktop 
> of your current computer.
>
> Erase the new PowerBook's disk.
>
> 1. Open Disk Utility. You'll find it in the Utilities folder, inside 
> the Applications folder.
> 2. Erase the disk on the new PowerBook.
> 3. Quit Disk Utility.
>
> Make a Bootable System Backup to the disk in the new PowerBook.
>
> Please see Making a bootable backup.
>
> Restart your new PowerBook.
>
> 1. Disconnect the FireWire cable between your current computer and the 
> new PowerBook.
> 2. Restart the new PowerBook.
>
> If your PowerBook doesn't immediately start up, you may need to hold 
> down the Option key while starting up in order to choose the startup 
> disk.
>
> Also, if your new PowerBook has different hardware than your current 
> computer, it may be necessary to install OS X over the backup, while 
> preserving all system and user settings.  This adds any additional 
> drivers that are required by the new computer. Make sure that the  OS 
> X install disk you use is the one that came with the new computer.
> ----------------------------
>
> The above doesn't sound too involved, but I would like some 
> advice/guidance in one area.  The Albook has a different processor, 
> bigger HD, and different ports from what my Tibook had.  When I 
> emailed Qdea support, he indicated to do an archive and install, if 
> the Albook won't boot after dragging everything over from the backup 
> of the Tibook.
>
> I guess it's the preserving of settings statement that throws me ... 
> is it the settings of like my email, bookmarks, etc. or is the machine 
> settings found in the Apple system profiler?
> ---------------------------------
>
> Is this all I have to do ... am I leaving anything out in properly 
> getting the Albook pick up where I left off with the Tibook?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bryan F.
>
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