On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Dan A wrote:
Hi all,
I need some help to clarify the best procedure to use to restore the
contents of an internal drive to a new place.
My old G4 15” 800 MHz Ti-Book, using 10.4.11, developed bouts of
severe screen disruption with lines, which I think might be due to
the cable going trom computer to screen, being pinched or perhaps
it’s the video card. Seems like a cable, because a visiting daughter
tilted the screen while using it and things went bad from there...
but I’m not looking to fix it... instead, I want to restore the
entire backed up contents to a “new” 15” 1.64 GHz PB which will have
a clean install of 10.4 in it from the seller, which I’ll upgrade to
10.5 after the restoration.
Here is the situation that I’m working with:
I have been doing daily backups of the 800MHz using SuperDuper to an
external 1TB firewire drive. Even though SuperDuper has been
finishing each backup making the TB drive bootable, it actually
isn’t. I have to use another way to get SuperDuper to restore the
backed-up data to the 1.67 book. I cannot find, at this time, the
SuperDuper disk to install into the 1.67. But I do have SuperDuper
on a working 17” 1.33 MHz G4 PB which also happens to be connected
to the same 1 TB firewire drive. Can I just add/connect the new 15
PB directly to the same I TB drive via a FW cable, theres an open
port on the TB drive, and ask Super Duper on the 17 to restore the
back-up on TB to the new 15?
Sorry for all the words, whew. Thanks for any specific info or a
better way that you can outline for me. I’d like to get this right
the first time. It’s been a nightmare trying to regain some of the
functionality that I had going on the Ti-Book.
You're going about this all wrong. First, the reason the 1TB external
HD isn't bootable is because you've probably not got the correct
partition format on the HD. PPC Macs using 10.4 Tiger require "Apple
Partition Format". Intel Macs use "GUID Partition Format", and your
external HD would have came OEM as "Master Boot Record Partition
Format". The file system is independent of the partition format, so
even if you repartitioned to "HFS+" file system, if the partition
format is wrong you can't boot on a PPC Mac. Leopard 10.5 can boot
BOTH Apple Partition format and GUID on PPC Macs, but Intel Macs only
boot GUID.
The "best" way to accomplish your goal is to forget about Tiger 10.4
on the new 1.67 and instead do a clean install of Leopard 10.5, then
during the installation process use the Migration Assistant to move
everything over from the old TiBook. The way you do this is to select
the option "Transfer my information from another Mac" and then boot
the TiBook into Firewire Target Disk mode by holding the "T" key at
startup and connect it to the new 1.67 with a Firewire cable and let
the Migration Assistant transfer everything. You could also possibly
transfer from the external 1TB drive if you wanted, but why use a copy
when the original is available?
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