roccopagano Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Hi everybody, I've made a big mistake and lost the backup of the harddrive of my appleTV take2. I was trying to install MacOSX on it without success and so now I've got a completely empty HDD without chance of recover. Somebody could help me and tell me how could I recover my AppleTV? The only thing I've got is a copy of the original boot.efi file Thanks to all... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111314-appletv-restore-without-backup/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
davilla Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 google is your friend http://code.google.com/p/atv-bootloader/wiki/ATVBackup Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111314-appletv-restore-without-backup/#findComment-788602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roccopagano Posted June 19, 2008 Author Share Posted June 19, 2008 NO... you are my friend but now i need linux... do you think that a linux system on parallels would work for it? thanks again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111314-appletv-restore-without-backup/#findComment-789453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davilla Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 Yes, I do most of the atv-bootloader dev work under vmware fusion. parallels should also work now that USB support is much better than the initial versions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111314-appletv-restore-without-backup/#findComment-790151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roccopagano Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 well i've tried with parallel and everything was ok except that the virtual ubuntu doesn't recognize the usb flash drive... so it must be a parallel problem!!! thanks for the additional info i will try with vmware now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111314-appletv-restore-without-backup/#findComment-790832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roccopagano Posted June 23, 2008 Author Share Posted June 23, 2008 I have tried many times the tutorial to restore my AppleTV but without success... Is somebody there who can help, maybe sending me the image of the HDD of his AppleTV? Please guys... i'm really desperated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111314-appletv-restore-without-backup/#findComment-793858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davilla Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 The atv-bootloader guides are pretty straight forward but can be difficult if you don't have Linux experience. Here's a link for restoring under OSX (http://smallnum.blogspot.com/2008/02/re-creating-apple-tv-from-scratch.html). Remember that you only need to create the four partitions and populate the recovery. The files needed can be pulled from the AppleTV update dgm. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111314-appletv-restore-without-backup/#findComment-794238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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