sebus Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 With Windoze it is easy, Ghost32 in VistaPE & we have a working image of the HD Then we can "destroy" the OS on it (by doing ie update) and quickly restore the image back in minutes Same combination applies to Mac OS X (VistaPE & Ghost32) But if you want Mac ONLY solution then read my method: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=364500 Thanks sebus Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mami007 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I also want to know that how to backup the image I know that the common method is make a dmg file from system and restore to the system boot camp. But I try to make dmg file but fail to do this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-360958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Chek about "Disk Utility" functions, check "Carbon Copy Cloner" also, sherch google. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-360961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 From what I could find, Carbon Copy Cloner does NOT make an image, but only clones the HD to another HD Somehow this migh be useful: h**p://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Clonetool Hatchery H1 Its works terrific with Hackintoshs and no "extra" steps needed. Has a nice straight forward GUI too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted May 8, 2007 Author Share Posted May 8, 2007 Thanks, will give it a go sebus Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Where do you find Carbon Copy Cloner? I looked in disk utils and it wasn't there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) is Here, it is not part of the system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Oh I see. Is CCC bootable or does it run from within the OS. If it runs on the OS, can it copy the contents of the drive the OS is running on? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 It is clone HDD to HDD. The version that fits on your system and your expectations is the beta one. I fou want to choce system to boot: Go System Preferences> Startup Disc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 use disk utility, you can make a new image from a disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Try downloading a copy of Hiren's Boot Disk v8.9. It has Ghost 11 on it and it will read and copy an image (can be compressed) of your hfs+ OSX86 partition. I've used it for this dozens of times while I was experimenting on getting my system up and running. It does require you to have some extra disk space as it makes a copy of the entire partition, not just the used part of the partition. Hope this helps someone. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 I used Cabon Copy to image from a USB to my SATA disk, but the SATA disk doesn't boot and neither of them show up as options in Prefs>startup disk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Try downloading a copy of Hiren's Boot Disk v8.9. It has Ghost 11 on it and it will read and copy an image (can be compressed) of your hfs+ OSX86 partition. I've used it for this dozens of times while I was experimenting on getting my system up and running. It does require you to have some extra disk space as it makes a copy of the entire partition, not just the used part of the partition. Hope this helps someone. Where to get this famous Boot disk, Green Demonoid? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Disk utility is the easiest way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Any ideas on why the SATA disk won't boot? It just does nothing. I used CCC to copy the OS after installing the applenforce kext. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Any ideas on why the SATA disk won't boot? It just does nothing. I used CCC to copy the OS after installing the applenforce kext. dON'T HIJACK THE THREAD! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 It’s relevant to the thread because it concerns whether or not the method of cloning I am using (CCC) is causing a system to be unbootable or not. By the way, I think it’s the first letter of a sentence that is supposed to be capitalized, not every other letter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipolippo Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Sebus why you don' t use Ghost 2003, I use it from floppy and it work fine !!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-361800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 I used Ghost in the end & it was (sadly) the easiest way to do One can of course create image to a network share from any - Hatchery, SuperDuper, Disk Util, but it is not possible to restore from this location to a new empty HD in a laptop Why not? If you have empty HD then no OS on it, so no boot Only way is Jas DVD 10.4.8 boot, which by default does not have correct drivers for my network card, hence no access to this network share It is sure possible to get an external USB FAT32 drive, copy this image & restore from there, but is it a really long process for no reason at all Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-362559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 I have an OSX Partition with 45GB, when I tried to use Ghost 8.3 to dump partition to an image, it will take me like an hour to do so, and it also showed 45GB all used... Quite annoying, I just cancelled it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-362691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 As Ghost does not understands the actual data on Apple partition it copies the whole disk/partition The initial time is wrong, as ie. 45Gb partition with actual 4.5 Gb of data So it only copies 4.5 of data, then empty space, which runs much quicker Also the image becomes quite compressed (I got 3.2 Gb from 4.7Gb data on 20 Gb partition in 36 min) sebus Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-362927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 As Ghost does not understands the actual data on Apple partition it copies the whole disk/partitionThe initial time is wrong, as ie. 45Gb partition with actual 4.5 Gb of data So it only copies 4.5 of data, then empty space, which runs much quicker Also the image becomes quite compressed (I got 3.2 Gb from 4.7Gb data on 20 Gb partition in 36 min) sebus tHANKS FOR THE INPUT, i WILL DO IT AGAIN! cHEERS! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-362963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Ghost was the only thing that worked for me. It took an hour to copy from a USB to SATA drive, but the SATA drive boots now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-363264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Well done irri. It takes time but it worth. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/#findComment-363267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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