Restore from Network Volume

[dnanian]

We have recently confirmed that the System DVDs shipped with the Intel Macs (both MacBook and iMac models) have a broken Disk Utility on them. This copy of Disk Utility has a restore tab that isn't functional: you can't drag any volumes into either the source or destination boxes!

So, until Apple provides replacement discs (or some kind of fix), you'll have to have a copy of OSX you can boot from that has a working Disk Utility. The OS version that comes with your iMac does have a Disk Utility that works, so a basic OSX install to a small partition on a regular hard drive will work.

(On Intel Macs, the hard drive can be a USB drive, so if you have an Intel OSX install on a partition on that server hard disk, that'll work fine, you'll just have to bring the drive to the Mac if you want to do a full emergency restore.)