The Mac OS X Utilities screen came up again. No problem! Everything went fine!īefore doing the next steps I made a Time Machine backup of my new MacBook Pro.Īfter the backup I restarted the MacBook Pro.Īnd, guess what. When asked for selecting items to migrate in steps 7 and 8 I marked all checkboxes to migrate Users, Applications, Settings and Other files and folders.Īfter a long while the migration assistant finished with the pop up Your information has been transferred successfully. I followed the steps as described in section Time Machine backup or other disk in Apples article How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac This time I migrated the data from my old MacBook by using a Time Machine backup.
#OS X UTILITIES MACBOOK PRO PRO#
Then I restarted the MacBook Pro and it worked fine!! Then I restarted the MacBook Pro and the Mac OS X Utilities screen came up again.Īs a last possibility I erased the disk using Disk Utility. It worked well.Īfterwards the usual startup screen came up.
#OS X UTILITIES MACBOOK PRO MAC OS X#
This time I tried to Reinstall Mac OS X while keeping the user accounts. When I restarted the MacBook Pro the Mac OS X Utilities screen came up again. I tried Disk Utility and repaired the disk. My options are Restore from Backup, Reinstall Mac OS X, Get help Online, ∽isk Utility. Today when I started the MacBook Pro the Mac OS X Utilities screen has come up. The next day I started the MacBook Pro and worked with iPhoto (upgrading old photos from iPhoto 8.1.2 of iLife ∠9, importing some photos), iTunes, Safari, Mail, OpenOffice. Then I quit the migration assistant and restarted the new MacBook Pro. When asked for selecting items to migrate in step 8 I marked all checkboxes to migrate Users, Applications, Settings and Other files and folders.Īfter a long while (many pictures and songs) the migration assistant finished with the pop up Your information has been transferred successfully. I started the old MacBook while pressing and holding the T key in FireWire target disk modeĪnd followed the steps as described in Apples article How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac I connected the new and old Mac with a FreWire 800/400 cable (9-pin to 6-pin). In the Migration Assistant I selected ∿rom another Mac I migrated my data from an old MacBook 2.0 GHz mid 2007 with Max OS X Snow Leopard using the Migration Assistant. Some days ago I bought a new 13 MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz with Mac OS X Lion. Here is the complete description of the issue: What do I have to do to solve this problem? To get my login mask I need to set the Startup Disk in the Apple menu and restart my Mac. New MacBook Pro with Lion starts up with Mac OS X Utilities.