How to restore a Time Machine backup onto an External hard drive?
My old MacBook pro died but not before; I backed it up to an external hard drive via Time Machine. I was recently given a slightly newer and fully working MacBook Pro, but it does not have a big enough hard disk to restore/migrate my backed up system. Is there a way to restore from Time Machine onto an external hard drive and run the system from there, in whole or in part? Any 3rd party utility or software would be helpful?
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How big is the new drive? How big is the backup? How much spare space do you have on the backup drive? What machine and what OS X are you running on the new machine? What were you running on the old machine? What is the new machine? Is the backup drive a 3.5" or a 2.5" drive?
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