Excellent! That should work perfectly! Thx! -Carl On Nov 7, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> TDM isn’t a facility — it’s a just firmware hack that gives you interface > access to the drive buses and emulates an external drive enclosure. No OS, > no programming is running, except minor firmware such as you would find > inside a typical drive enclosure. If you put a Mac into TDM, when you mount > it on another machine, the disk drive(s) appear on the desktop (at least > under the historic settings of desktop preferences), even including any > opticals that may be inserted. > > Since TDM simply emulates a stupid enclosure, if the internal drive is > unformatted, then it will mount as an unformatted drive, which you can format > from the working one. > > Just treat the TDM Mac as a dumb enclosure, and do exactly what you would do > if the new drive were in a dumb enclosure. > > On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If the former, I would start the empty one in TDM, (ideally) boot the >>> working one from a separate drive or DVD of any version of Mac OS if >>> possible, then use Disk Utility to “restore” the working one’s drive onto >>> the empty one. (It’s best not to be booted from the working drive at this >>> point, because then the drive is being constantly changed. It will usually >>> work, but it’s cleanest to avoid that.) >> >> Ah, so that’s the key: booting the good one from an install DVD. Thus TDM >> sees /all/ drives, mounted or not? >> >> Also, I assume that I will need to reformat the new drive (to Mac OS >> Extended, Journaled) before TDM will touch it. I guess this requires booting >> that one first from an install DVD to run Disk Utility, and then proceed >> with performing the TDM transfer? >> >> -Carl >> > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
