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  1. RJMang

    Carbon Copy Cloner restore question

    1. How does this work: if I have a CCC backup of my Mac from a computer with an older version of the OS than the new Mac that I want to restore. Is this possible to do? I also have a T.M. backup, but I've found restoring or migrating from T.M. to a new computer to be a less than flawless...
  2. F

    Cant enter recovery mode anymore

    I wanted to restore my Mac. The guide I found said to go to recovery mode by holding command + r upon restarting, and in there to go to disc utility and then delete the drive. I did this, and then I closed the disk utility in order to select the option to restore macOS. However, when selecting...
  3. vickyr66

    Restore WITHOUT Time Machine

    I recently had my HD die after almost 10 years and took my iMac to my school's IT department (since they fix student computers for free). The HD was replaced and the Mac works fine again, but they saved the backup as a regular folder and dropped it back on the desktop. I have since moved this...
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    iPhone account recovery when old phone's screen is broken?

    I had an iPhone 5, but last week, I dropped it and the screen broke, rendering it totally unviewable. I purchased an iPhone SE, and brought it to the local AT&T store so they could transfer the account over. When I arrived home, I plugged the SE into my Macbook in order to restore the backup...
  5. S

    MacBook Pro nowhere to install OS X

    okay so I think I mightve deleted my hard drive- I was using my computer normally and it turned off and I tried turning it on again but it showed a white screen and then a flashing folder with a question mark icon in it. I got the MacBook Pro new in June of 2013 and this incident happened...