On Feb 7, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Benjamin Donne-Lee wrote: > Hello > I backed up my ibook G4 using carbon copy cloner not realising it was backing > up to folders rather than a restorable disk image i was trying to install > Ubuntu 12.04 but it was not successful so i went to restore and realised the > data was backed up to a folder, I booted from my install disk and tried to > convert the folder unsuccessfully to a disk image it says complete then i try > to restore the HDD from it and i get the error that it is not recognisable > Can Anyone Please help???
If I have this straight, you cloned your hard drive into a folder on an external drive with CCC, and you're trying to use Migration Assistant to restore? Disk Utility let you make a restore image of the drive with the folder, but it cannot be used to restore your Mac's system because it's just a disk image of a data drive with a folder with stuff in it, not a bootable OS X volume. The FOLDER contains everything you need for a bootable backup, but you'll need a running version of CCC to restore that. The simplest solution I can think of is to get yet ANOTHER external drive, install OS X to that drive, boot from it, install Carbon Copy Cloner on that system, then use it to copy your real backup to the internal drive. Theoretically you could accomplish this via the command line using dd or ditto, but I don't know if the truncated Terminal environment of a installer disk has dd or ditto. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
