sigmaris Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I have a completely working OSx86 installation in my PC on a 40GB IDE HDD (it is the only OS on the drive) I would like to copy the install to my new 250GB SATA HDD, again so it is the only OS on the drive. I tried using Disk Utility's restore function to copy from one drive to another but the new drive is not bootable. Is there any way to do this without reinstalling? I have spent a lot of time getting everything working (driver patching, Natit, etc) and don't want to lose it. Also none of the install DVDs support my SATA chipset, i had to add support for it after installing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43234-copy-installation-to-new-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
haribo Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 test for sata working, then use superduper, its great, everytime i can backup from 1 to 2 or from 2 to 1, i can test new kernels etc. if doesnt work , okay start up from the other hd and bachup. harry Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43234-copy-installation-to-new-hard-drive/#findComment-309042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigmaris Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 I followed this advice and tried superduper... made a full backup, and superduper says at the end it is making the new drive bootable. But it doesn't boot up from the new drive. I think superduper only knows how to make drives bootable for real apple machines, but on a PC it needs a Darwin bootloader on the drive. Is there any way I can copy the boot loader from my existing installation onto the new drive too? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43234-copy-installation-to-new-hard-drive/#findComment-309733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 You need to boot with your install DVD, then when you get the GUI select disk utility. You can then choose an image file to install from. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43234-copy-installation-to-new-hard-drive/#findComment-309735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haribo Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 (edited) no, no no, i use an AMD , its no problem, fix sata. post your workflow. you have "options" setting to the right way? sorry for my english. tomorrow i will show my options, right? its the sata visible on the working system? Harry you have changed in Bios the bootdisk? harry Edited February 23, 2007 by haribo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43234-copy-installation-to-new-hard-drive/#findComment-309870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigmaris Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 Ok, i solved this problem by making a patched JaS install DVD with the diskutility from 10.4.7 patch and drivers for my SATA controller, and using it to install a fresh 10.4.8 install to the new HD. This got me a bootable OS X partition on the new HD. Then I removed all the files on the new HD and copied my current install onto the new HD using Disk Utility (without erasing the destination). Now it works fine, my settings and files are all there and it boots correctly. I guess there may be quicker/easier ways to do this, though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43234-copy-installation-to-new-hard-drive/#findComment-310524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahamanPatrick Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Hey, I have basically the same problem. I used SuperDuper to make a "bootable" backup of my drive so I could restore it, but Disk Utility gives me an error when I try to put it back on my Hard Drive. Were you able to restore your disk with Disk Utility? I guess you were able to but how? Did you install OS X then restore? I don't have an image file of the drive, i just told SuperDuper to make a byte by byte copy. Also, I backed it up to a partitioned External HDD is that the problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43234-copy-installation-to-new-hard-drive/#findComment-316540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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