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creating a restore image
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OK guys quick question (I think):
I've got a nice, semi-clean install of OS 9.2.2 with my OS 9 apps on my first partition and a clean install of OS 10.3.8 with my apps installed on the second partition of my only internal hard drive. Total drive size is 114GB, though I'm only using ~65 or so GB with my MP3's in my home folder. I want to back these up to a firewire drive, which is about 152GB.
I figured out how to make disk images by booting off my OS 10.3.5 CD, but how do I restore them? I've tried read/write, read-only, and compressed, and while all the different formats will let me choose the image I'm trying to restore, none of them will actually let me click the little "Restore" button in Disk Utility - it stays greyed out.
The images have been of the individual partitions to this point...do I need to make an image of the whole drive? Or is there something else I'm missing? TIA.
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Select a disk (not a disk image) on the left, then the Restore tab should become available. Then you just drag the source disk/image and destination disk to the respective drop zones in Restore, and press Restore.
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Apple screwed everything up when they lumped Disk Utility and Disc Copy into one big application on the grounds that "two applications called disk/disc is confusing". Yeah, like the result is any less confusing.
Grr.
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You should also be making the images using Carbon Copy Cloner and choose the option for prepare for Apple Software Restore.
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Originally posted by Angus_D:
Apple screwed everything up when they lumped Disk Utility and Disc Copy into one big application on the grounds that "two applications called disk/disc is confusing". Yeah, like the result is any less confusing.
Grr.
It doesn't confuse me.
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Originally posted by tooki:
Select a disk (not a disk image) on the left, then the Restore tab should become available. Then you just drag the source disk/image and destination disk to the respective drop zones in Restore, and press Restore.
tooki
Not sure I'm following you...I've never been selecting an image on the left; I've been selecting a partition...are you saying I should select the parent (the actual disk itself)? And what format should I make the images in? Read-only? Read/write?
Laurence - I'll check out Carbon Copy Cloner, thanks for the tip
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Selecting a partition should work just fine, I don't know why your Restore tab won't work. :shrug:
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