Trying to restore image using OSX Disk Utility
Hello everyone:
Wow ... SuperDuper is a ... well ... super duper program! I mainly do PC stuff, but this program is simple to use and very easy to run. If only MS could do things this easily! At any rate - I'm having a problem that I'm hoping to get some help with. I have an iMac that has system 10.3.9 on it. I recently created an image to my USB 2.0 external hard disk drive. Something happened to the laptop, and I'd like to go back to that image. I followed the instructions in the user sheets, booted using my OSX CD, and then went into the Disk Utility Program. When I clicked on the source and destination and tried to click on restore, the blue lines start moving for about 2 seconds, and then I receive an error stating that the operation failed because of an error of type 2. When I backed up, I chose the "backup all files" option, and did not save to an image file. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Many thanks for the help! -Michael |
I'm not sure what might be doing that, Michael. Did you erase the old internal drive? It might have run out of space...
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Hello Dave:
Thanks for your reply. The internal Mac hard drive is 14.1GB, and the external disk I was using to back up to was a Maxtor 40GB. The Maxtor drive is a regular, IDE-base hard disk drive that has been inserted into a USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure. I've used the drive to back up my Windows systems before, but perhaps this might not be working with Mac? I have another iMac that I could image. Perhaps I'll try it again today and see if I can get it to work. Hopefully it was just a fluke the first time. I'll post back with the results. Many thanks again. Take care, Michael |
What I'm really wondering is whether you erased the internal drive (there's a checkbox in Disk Utility) before restoring...
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Sorry, Dave, forgot to mention that in my last post. To be honest, I can't recall whether or not I checked that box or not. I'll try again later this morning and make a note to be sure that box is checked. Thanks again for all the help.
-Michael |
Hello Dave -
My apologies for taking so long to post. That's exactly what my problem was. I clicked on the format box, and the image transferred perfectly. Thanks for all of your help ... MUCH appreciated. Take care, Michael |
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