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NewGenAdam

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Jun 29, 2008
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Because you can only plug the external dvd drive in DIRECTLY to the USB.
Hence there are no free ports to plug the hard drive...

Help! How do I restore from an HDD?
 

Veinticinco

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Feb 25, 2009
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Because you can only plug the external dvd drive in DIRECTLY to the USB.
Hence there are no free ports to plug the hard drive...

Help! How do I restore from an HDD?
Create a bootable copy of Leopard on your portable HDD (I use an old brick iPod) using Disk Utility and your Leopard DVD.
 
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