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#1 2009-10-29 9:22 pm
- robertgarven
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Need Expert Advice Migration of Data to new Imac 47"
Friends,
I still have my serious video ram problem set my other post. The apple store wanted $650 to replace my motherboard and the cheapest i found one online was $950, all for a machine that SL will not even support. I am limping along waiting for my i7 iMac to show (Whenever that is)
Here is my question. I am not sure if my data on tis machine is corrupted by my video ram problem so not sure I want to do the firewire transfer, that is if my machine will even last till my new one shows.
I have 2 back-ups a time machine and a super duper backup of 99% of my stuff. If I use my time machine back-up wont it wipe SL OS 10.6 off the new machine? When you do a TM back-up from disk utility from the OS10.5 leopard start-up disc, it says that it will completely wipe your HD clean.
Can I have a few suggestions on how to proceed when the time comes.
Thanks so much,
Rob Garven
BTW do any of you experts know if my video artifact problem is corrupting my files or just my video, while I am typing this everything looks good unless I look at my menu-bar or dock which is pretty distorted....
Robert Garven
Imac G5 - 2 Ghz
1G Ram - OS 10.5.6
Ventura, Ca
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#2 2009-10-29 9:31 pm
- sturner
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Re: Need Expert Advice Migration of Data to new Imac 47"
Your Time Machine files are on an external disk. You can restore your data from there to your new iMac. See this knowledge base article.
With Time Machine you can select what to backup and what not to backup. So your data files can be restored independently of your System files.
For Super Duper, you have to select what to restore, and I don't use that enough to tell you if it can be done, or not.
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#3 2009-10-29 10:08 pm
Re: Need Expert Advice Migration of Data to new Imac 47"
I doubt that a VRAM issue would affect anything on your hard disk. The only way it could is if it was creating some sort of ground fault, and if it was, you'd be having a whole array of problems.
To be safe, you could run some tests on the hard drive via disk utility.
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