Transferring data with setup assistant and internal drive

[axl430]

Hello,

I have a 2009 macpro with 10.6.8. It is no longer working so I purchased a used 2010 with 10.11. Both are quad cores. I had an internal hardrive in my 2009 that stored my time machine backups. I searched these forums but was unable to determine if I could put my time machine drive into one of the bays of the 2010 before I start it and then use startup assistant to transfer my files. All the post I found talked about wired connections ie. firewire, usb etc. Also, if I install my boot disk from my 2009 in addition to the existing drive, can I hold option during startup and have it run in 10.6.8?

Thank you for your assistance

 

[DearthnVader]

Hello,

I have a 2009 macpro with 10.6.8. It is no longer working so I purchased a used 2010 with 10.11. Both are quad cores. I had an internal hardrive in my 2009 that stored my time machine backups. I searched these forums but was unable to determine if I could put my time machine drive into one of the bays of the 2010 before I start it and then use startup assistant to transfer my files. All the post I found talked about wired connections ie. firewire, usb etc. Also, if I install my boot disk from my 2009 in addition to the existing drive, can I hold option during startup and have it run in 10.6.8?

Thank you for your assistance

Setup Assistant will allow you to migrate data from an internal volume, but I'm not sure if it will do it from a Time Machine backup.

That's normally how I install a new version of the macOS, is to clean install it on another drive or partition and use setup assistant to move my user account and data too the new install.

 

[h9826790]

Setup Assistant will allow you to migrate data from an internal volume, but I'm not sure if it will do it from a Time Machine backup.

That's normally how I install a new version of the macOS, is to clean install it on another drive or partition and use setup assistant to move my user account and data too the new install.

It can migrate from Time Machine.

Hello,

I have a 2009 macpro with 10.6.8. It is no longer working so I purchased a used 2010 with 10.11. Both are quad cores. I had an internal hardrive in my 2009 that stored my time machine backups. I searched these forums but was unable to determine if I could put my time machine drive into one of the bays of the 2010 before I start it and then use startup assistant to transfer my files. All the post I found talked about wired connections ie. firewire, usb etc. Also, if I install my boot disk from my 2009 in addition to the existing drive, can I hold option during startup and have it run in 10.6.8?

Thank you for your assistance

I am quite sure you can even just put the original 10.6.8 HDD in the "new" 5,1 and continue to use it (unless this new 5,1 has some self upgrade parts e.g. GPU which required newer macOS)