Blue-K Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I have a question. I sucessfull installed Leopard on my external HD. Now I want to put it on my second partition on my Laptop. Everything is ready, I used EasyBCD, Partition is formated, etc... So, now, how to transfer it? Time Maxchine isn't working (I've tried realy everything...) so I wanted to do it like Mysticus said: 0-) Beauty of this is you dont need to use dvd now, only diskutility, it will do Live Cloning when you are in osx already1-) Open Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility) 2-) From the left side, Click On the name of the current OSX HDD/Partition 3-) From the right side, Click on the Restore tab 4-) On the right side, you should see Source and Destination/Target paths 5-) From the left side, drag and drop the name of your current working OSX partition (main as in this example) to the Source path on the right side 6-) From the left side, drag and drop the name of your new OSX partition (test as in this example) to the Destination/Target path on the right side 7-) Do not choose anything on the bottom side unless you didnt erase the new hdd's new osx partition. 8-) Click on the Restore button on the right bottom side 9-) Now wait for the Restore to finish. (5-10 mins depending on your programs etc the partition size...) 10-) Once it is finished, on your new hdd you have the same exact copy of your current working osx partition but not the bootloader which you dont need anyway... Ok, so far no problem, but now I haven't a bootloader on that Partition...Can I simply download Chameleon and install it on that Partition, and then I have a working OS? Will this work? many Thanks in Advance! (And if there's another Topic with the same question, excuse me, but I didn't found one...) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122117-restore-system-and-after-that-chameleon/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-K Posted August 23, 2008 Author Share Posted August 23, 2008 Is this question so dumb....? Please, only a Yes or No .... EDIT: BUMP!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122117-restore-system-and-after-that-chameleon/#findComment-866239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
outboost Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 I'd like to know as well. Say you have 2 hard drives, one with a functional Leopard install and one with a duplicate of it. How do you make the second install show up on the boot loader as an option? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122117-restore-system-and-after-that-chameleon/#findComment-866506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-K Posted August 24, 2008 Author Share Posted August 24, 2008 I'd like to know as well. Say you have 2 hard drives, one with a functional Leopard install and one with a duplicate of it. How do you make the second install show up on the boot loader as an option? I have one Harddrive with 4 Partitions: 1) Hidden recovery 2) Vista-Partition 3) Formated Mac Os X Extended (Journaled) 4) Acer Service And one USB-Harddrive with two partitions: 1) Games 2) Fully working Leopard System I looked around and found a Chamelon installer. So with the working System on my USB-Drive, I can lauch the Installer and select the Partition 3 for target. But will this work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122117-restore-system-and-after-that-chameleon/#findComment-867049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Methanoid Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Blue-K - did you find a solution? Care to share it? I'm in exactly same position - I have restored a working retail install to an external USB HDD and now want to bring it back to an MBR partition and need to reinstall some sort of EFI or Chameleon to get it to boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122117-restore-system-and-after-that-chameleon/#findComment-1168084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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