brianstanfill Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Heck of a discussion... but I'm no nearer to an efficient means for restoring a working backup of OSx86 after a failed bout tinkering with kexts; I'm getting fairly discouraged by the reinstall process too. Apparently something happens to the disk during the JAS install that doesn't replicate during a CCC or SuperDuper backup routine. DISK BOOT FAILURE inevitable. The Ghost solution sounds plausible for now, I guess. Maybe a hardware RAID mirror would work to get an exact copy of an OSx86 installation onto another disk. Break the mirror to tinker; rebuild with the working backup; repeat. Comments? Brian Stanfill Palmer, Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtom Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I used ccc to clone my GUID chameleon partition to a brandnew harddisk (GUID formatted). Only thing afterwards is to install chameleon on new harddisk. Swap and boot new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtram Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 What became the final resolution to this question? Is Norton Ghost (in windows) the best for creating an image/restoring a hackintosh? Does NG make a bootable CD or must I restore from within Windoze.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schismatic Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 I'm also interested in knowing how to do this. Just got my OSx86 install working perfectly so a backup is definitely something I'm interested in. What solutions are you guys using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pecemac Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 Hi, Make your cloned disk active and restrart using System pref, when it is loaded you can restore it normally, (instead you can use CCC also) on my normal mac mini, i make an image to another partition or hard drive using superduper and then boot using cd to use the disk utility to restore the dmg file overwriting the boot drive. i did this the other night only to find out that the jas 10.4.8 boot dvd's disk utility doesn't let me choose/specify anything as the target disk...i could specify source image but could not get it to specify destination. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwin Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I don't know if this is still relevant to anyone but I use SystemRescueCD, have done so for years, google it. Its a Linux boot CD, its recovered my Windows installations on many occasions. The Disk management tool on it is GParted so check to see if that supports what you need. The copy tool is DD command line tools but I can use it fine and I'm no programmer. Sorry if that's no use, I'll need to make a backup myself soon so will be looking into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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