Good morning. Looking for a little help please.
My story.
2 days ago my HD in my imac shows smart failing.. So i imaged the entire HD with the disk utility and put it on my external HD.
I then downloaded a tool which would let me put the disk utility etc on a thumb drive (the CD from apple is DEEP in storage while we move)
I put in the new drive ,and booted from the USB. and scanned the image, it was good, then imaged the new drive. (did i need to do something else to make it bootable?) i would have assumed the image from the old hd would have the boot record on it.
now when i boot up i get the ? folder.
if i force boot with option i see the drive called Untitled.
selecting that now i get a circle with a line through it and a spinny thing below.
its been there for 10 minutes now.
EDIT : went back in with the utility boot usb, the drive that i sent the image to has 392gb used, which was the size of my image. i ran a verify disk and everything came back OK.
EDIT 2: I ran the verify permissions and a TON are off. Now on my original mac i made some changes to some things, nothing major just some shares etc. im guessing i should repair them?
EDIT 3 : There was no partition map scheme. Apparently i didnt format it before imaging. so now i have to reimage the whole thing. hours more of my time.
is there a step i missed? please help, i am desperate. thanks folks in advance. i appreciate any help you can offer me.
My story.
2 days ago my HD in my imac shows smart failing.. So i imaged the entire HD with the disk utility and put it on my external HD.
I then downloaded a tool which would let me put the disk utility etc on a thumb drive (the CD from apple is DEEP in storage while we move)
I put in the new drive ,and booted from the USB. and scanned the image, it was good, then imaged the new drive. (did i need to do something else to make it bootable?) i would have assumed the image from the old hd would have the boot record on it.
now when i boot up i get the ? folder.
if i force boot with option i see the drive called Untitled.
selecting that now i get a circle with a line through it and a spinny thing below.
its been there for 10 minutes now.
EDIT : went back in with the utility boot usb, the drive that i sent the image to has 392gb used, which was the size of my image. i ran a verify disk and everything came back OK.
EDIT 2: I ran the verify permissions and a TON are off. Now on my original mac i made some changes to some things, nothing major just some shares etc. im guessing i should repair them?
EDIT 3 : There was no partition map scheme. Apparently i didnt format it before imaging. so now i have to reimage the whole thing. hours more of my time.
is there a step i missed? please help, i am desperate. thanks folks in advance. i appreciate any help you can offer me.
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