Braddman Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 OK I'm new to this whole thing, but I finally have a stable installation (somewhat, it won't sleep and my time and date are all fed up.) There's no way to back up my installation, I've tried everything. Nothing will boot. Can someone do step by step backup instructions? I've searched but nothinng seems to work, none of the backups are ever bootable (CCC, superduper, etc.) After all this hard work I wish I could just have a bootable backup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172447-cannot-backup-my-osx86-installation-period/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Apparently you should back up to a GUID partition, MBR will give troubles. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172447-cannot-backup-my-osx86-installation-period/#findComment-1186401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braddman Posted June 26, 2009 Author Share Posted June 26, 2009 Apparently you should back up to a GUID partition, MBR will give troubles. I'm not sure I follow...Can you explain how and what to use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172447-cannot-backup-my-osx86-installation-period/#findComment-1186418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Boot_Record You have to format your hard drive to "upgrade" from MBR to GUID. Reinstall - run Apple Disk Utility from your install DVD before installing OSX. Or use a spare hard drive and partition and format it using Disk Utility from within your existing install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172447-cannot-backup-my-osx86-installation-period/#findComment-1186837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braddman Posted July 1, 2009 Author Share Posted July 1, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Tablehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Boot_Record You have to format your hard drive to "upgrade" from MBR to GUID. Reinstall - run Apple Disk Utility from your install DVD before installing OSX. Or use a spare hard drive and partition and format it using Disk Utility from within your existing install. Did that already. Formatted/erased my drive with disk utility, reinstalled Ideneb on it, still won't boot. OK so here we go again. Just erased/formatted my USB drive with Disk Utility and made SURE it was GUID. Now how to I backup my current install to that drive and make it bootable? If I use Carbon Copy Cloner on it now should it work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172447-cannot-backup-my-osx86-installation-period/#findComment-1189635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braddman Posted July 1, 2009 Author Share Posted July 1, 2009 This is so ridiculous that I can't do this. I formatted the disk GUID, carbon copy cloned it, used OSX86 tools to reinstall Chameleon/EFI and now the disk says GPT HFS+ BOOTING DONE when I try to boot off of it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172447-cannot-backup-my-osx86-installation-period/#findComment-1189890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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