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If my internal drive fails, could I reformat it and copy my back up files into it without reinstalling the OS from the CD/DVD? Will it startup fine just like in OS9?
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- 02-10-2005, 10:21 AM #1Mac Lover
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OS X restore from backup
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- 02-10-2005, 10:33 AM #2Super Moderator
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When you reformat a drive you erase everything in it. You have to reinstall the OS. What do you mean by starting up fine just like in OS9? Your drive starts-up in 9 but not in OSX?
- 02-10-2005, 10:42 AM #3Mac Lover
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No sir, I mean I'm led to believe that backing up my hard drive would save me the ardous task of reinstalling the OS and other software by just simply dragging all the files including the OSX system folder into the reformatted internal drive. I remember just dragging an OS9 system folder in to a drive and it boots fine. I'm wondering with the new UNIX file system, would it be just as easy?
- 02-10-2005, 01:09 PM #4Mac Fanatic
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I don't think you can just drag everything over but what i use is Carbon Copy Cloner and it works perfectly
- 02-10-2005, 01:26 PM #5Super Moderator
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What carbon copy cloner does is copy even the invisible system files which drag and drop wont.
[Edited on 2-10-2005 by peter_ob]
- 02-10-2005, 01:37 PM #6Mac Lover
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Originally posted by tdbur
I don't think you can just drag everything over but what i use is Carbon copy Cloner and it works perfectly
how does carbon copy cloner work?(as i was writing it, it was already answered) i read the link mdyo yta techy for me. like yng "netboot image"? any other advice you can add before i use this software?
AS
[Edited on 2-10-2005 by ayrton senna]
- 02-10-2005, 01:54 PM #7Super Moderator
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I think cloning OSX to the firt 8 gig of your HDD still apply. You should have the BSD subsystem installed. Otherwise it is a pretty straightforward operation.
[Edited on 2-10-2005 by peter_ob]
- 02-10-2005, 08:56 PM #8Super Moderator
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CCC is very easy to use. Just choose a source drive and a target drive. Then click on clone. Yun lang!Originally posted by ayrton senna
Originally posted by tdbur
I don't think you can just drag everything over but what i use is Carbon copy Cloner and it works perfectly
how does carbon copy cloner work?(as i was writing it, it was already answered) i read the link mdyo yta techy for me. like yng "netboot image"? any other advice you can add before i use this software?
AS
[Edited on 2-10-2005 by ayrton senna]
Just be sure the "make bootable" option is enabled in the prefs to make the target drive bootable. Thats it, nothing to it.
- 02-10-2005, 10:41 PM #9Super Moderator
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Once you've made a bootable backup using CCC, ALWAYS check that the back up actually boots. Just restart while holding the option key down and select the backup disk.
If you have to restore, just boot from the Mac OS X install CD, start Disk Utility and select Restore. It's a very easy process, no need to reinstall anything.
[Edited on 2-10-2005 by PatrickGaerlan]
- 02-14-2005, 02:38 AM #10Mac Lover
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Thanks so much Tdbur for the CCC link. Fantastic software. I wish I could dontate to the author of CCC but I still don't trust using my plastic in the net. Thanks Sir Peter and Patrick for the tips!
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