Envying Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 What kind of file system are you guys using? FAT32? I tried with Ghost 8.3 to create an image on my HFS+ 45GB Partition, and saved it on my SATA drive, it was a monster of 36GB finally through 1hour and 10 mins waiting... Damn!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I stress a HDD to die trying for first time to use that. It worked finaly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I stress a HDD to die trying for first time to use that.It worked finaly. More details please? How did you make it finally? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I just used the utility. This utility it can be used from a single floppy or it can be part of a Restore DVD. In our case is diferent if we had a basic installation a DVD is enough, but we have HUDGE installations. Ghost does not understands the data on Apple partition it copies the whole HDD. The time is wrong for the entire prosses after copying data goes faster. My basic installation is 25 Gig, and i think you also have similar size installed. It takes more than 1,5 hour to do that. (i like your avatar...pass it over me) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I just used the utility.This utility it can be used from a single floppy or it can be part of a Restore DVD. In our case is diferent if we had a basic installation a DVD is enough, but we have HUDGE installations. Ghost does not understands the data on Apple partition it copies the whole HDD. The time is wrong for the entire prosses after copying data goes faster. My basic installation is 25 Gig, and i think you also have similar size installed. It takes more than 1,5 hour to do that. (i like your avatar...pass it over me) But the bad thing is I only have a installation of 5GB on 45GB partition, it still came out with 36GB ghost image. I really don't know WTF was Ghost doing on that. For my avatar, I just got it somewhere else, I don't have a bigger size copy, if you like, you can just save it from the forum. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Disc to Image High compression? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Disc to Image High compression? Fast compression... not so fast 650MB/Min... almost no compression. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
irri Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Well done irri.It takes time but it worth. Thanks, and thanks for your help. Next step is to get my ATI X850XT running. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted May 11, 2007 Author Share Posted May 11, 2007 As Oracle67 said, Disc to Image High compression Forget the Fast, as it does nothing good Also the Disk Utility from JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2 does NOT work It is NOT possible to restore the image from enternal USB drive (drive is seen, image can be selecetd) to an internal drive Destination can never be selected (as it is greyed out) Anybody else noticed this? sebus Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
micato Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Norton Ghost Works too ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Yes sebus is exactly the way you say. I had the option to use FireWire to complet it. It is good that you notice that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted May 12, 2007 Author Share Posted May 12, 2007 Oracle67, it is apparently a known problem due to the patch: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...lity&st=28# Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-363880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyman Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 What is the best way to make an image of my MBP HDD? I don't have Windows installed via BootCamp and want to make an image of my Macintosh HD which shall be copied to an external (eSATA/USB) hard drive. In addition to this I have another question which is not directly related to this topic, but can I install Vista on the mentioned external SATA HDD? If so, how can this be done? I think I could install it on the MBP via BootCamp and then clone it to another HDD, but then I guess it won't work, because of BootCamp. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/50454-how-to-image-mac-hd-solution/page/2/#findComment-378309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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