Hello Eleanor. here is an article from apple on how to migrate using mavericks. 
It shows how to do it several ways I think I hope this helps.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872
On Jul 3, 2014, at 11:35 AM, eleanor martha burke 
<eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am still not clear from your wristbands if all my voice-over setting back 
> up also when you say about the disk being formatted do I have to format my 
> external hard drive on a Mac currently it has some Windows files on it such 
> as Word documents
> 
> Eleanor Martha Burke
> 
>> On 3 Jul 2014, at 16:48, Sarah k Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello.  To back up your mac, go to sysrem prefs, then to time machine. Now 
>> choose your disk if it is formatted  properly, then  follow the prompts. I 
>> normally just have it back up everything then taylor it later to my needs.
>> 
>> Good luck.
>>> On Jul 3, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Eleanor Martha Burke 
>>> <eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All, would someone kindly go through the various steps for me to back up 
>>> my Mac.  Presumably in backing-up this will retain all my vo settings also. 
>>> Is this correct?  I have a 125GB external hard drive, would that be 
>>> sufficient or alternatively I could use a Terabite drive.  At present I am 
>>> more concerned with backing up my vo settings rather than having a lot of 
>>> data on the Mac.
>>> 
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