Help Needed: Disk Utility Error

[weijfo3ijrt3giTG]

Hello Everyone,

 

I was wondering if someone could help me brainstorm why this error in Disk Utility appears.

 

How it happens is as follows:

 

We made a disk image of a Mac OSX Snow Leopard Install Disk in Disk Utility on a machine running Leopard (10.5).

We attempted to image the image onto a partition on a USB bootable drive on a machine running Snow Leopard.

The attached error message appears and stops the imaging.

 

I suspect it's a weird quirk in the new Disk Utility application that comes with Snow Leopard that sees images made by the Leopard version of Disk Utility as incompatible. Why? Because if I take the actual install disk and insert it in and image that onto the partition, it works fine, so I really think it's a problem with the disk image.It also works to image the image onto a partition of the drive if you do it on a machine running Leopard (not Snow).

Thoughts?

[Gringo Vermelho]

I've seen that on Leopard too. It's not an error message.

 

Just do what the dialog tells you to do (hint: look in the menu)

[weijfo3ijrt3giTG]

I did that in the menu- tough luck- didn't work. However, it didn't give me the dialog on Snow Leopard, only on Leopard. In Leopard it would work, probably because the image was made with a Leopard machine. On Snow Leopard Disk Utility seems to have problems restoring images made on Leopard machines to partitions.

[Gringo Vermelho]

Thanks, good to know....fortunately I haven't had to do that yet.

 

One more reason to keep a 10.5.8 install around.

The other being that 10.5.x can read and write to older format Apple disk images.