The bit more information...... I am moving from a 2009 Mac Pro that had 5 active spindles to an iMac I wanted to keep the drive concept running on the new machine because that helps me to remember where all the data is located, eg text, pictures etc. On the new machine I decided to use 4 equivalent partitions to correspond to the drives I had on the Mac Pro. Fortunately I take nightly copies of each partition to a 4GB disk drive. using Carbon Copy Cloner. The reason for moving to the iMac was that the Mac has died - it does not fire up. It was running Big Sur.
During my build up of the iMac I inadvertently deleted the contents of Partition 1 which is why I want to copy it from the backup drive to the main drive. For security reasons Apple do not want users booting from external drives. So that is why I need to copy the contents of the drive to the empty partition on the iMac. If I could boot up from the external backup set of drives I would be OK but Apple has got very sensitive on using external drives during the boot process. So that is where I am at and why I got here. Thanks for your interest Regards Derek Wright On Monday, 1 March 2021 at 23:29:39 UTC Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > If the machine won’t boot then how will you run the terminal commands to > copy ext1 to Main1? There are different terminal commands which can be used > to copy files from one place to another, such as : > > rsync -avz /Volumes/ext1/ /Volumes/Main1/ > cp -Rvp /Volumes/ext1/* /Volumes/Main1/ > > Some things to consider : > > If ext1 has a bootable clone of Main1, boot form ext1 by holding alt at > startup. > If ext1 doesn’t have a bootable clone of Main1, copying the files won’t > enable the Mac to boot from Main1. > > Your best bet if probably to boot from internet recovery (alt+cmd+R at > startup) > Reinstall macOS on Main1 > boot up and copy the files from ext1 > to where you want them to go on Main1. > > I’d need a bit more info about the current situation to come up with an > exact solution though. > > *_* > > Regards > Sam Mullen > > +44 (0)7747778022 <//+447747778022> > [email protected] > www.macambulance.com > [image: MacAmbulance] MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC > Support and Web Development > > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and > delete the email immediately. > > On 1 Mar 2021, at 22:41, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > No this is a genuine question - have I put it in the wrong section?ks > > Thanks > > > On Monday, 1 March 2021 at 21:57:32 UTC Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > >> Hi Derek >> >> Was that an old email? I can’t see the thread it relates to. >> *_* >> >> Regards >> Sam Mullen >> >> +44 (0)7747778022 <//+447747778022> >> [email protected] >> www.macambulance.com >> [image: MacAmbulance] MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC >> Support and Web Development >> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, >> registration number 8466597 >> >> This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may >> contain privileged or confidential information. >> >> If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and >> delete the email immediately. >> >> On 1 Mar 2021, at 20:13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I have got myself in a bind and cannot proceed using the external >> commands so I will have to use Terminal to copy the contents of an external >> drive called "ext1" to an internal drive called Main1. Please can you >> supply the Terminal commands. >> >> The machine will not boot at the moment as the Main1 drive/partition >> contains some key information. which is not available. >> >> An alternative would be to get the machine to boot up from the external >> drives/partitions - however that is beyond me at the moment >> >> Thanks for any help >> >> Derek Wright >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/e2c7268d-4225-4d3c-985e-1227a4b4989en%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/e2c7268d-4225-4d3c-985e-1227a4b4989en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/71a19d1c-caba-49a8-abc3-65f14db562f4n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/71a19d1c-caba-49a8-abc3-65f14db562f4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/99c1d84c-0ebb-4e31-9fe3-6c692f2806f8n%40googlegroups.com.
