My hard drive on my MBP completely died as I was doing a final backup but it appears I got most of the stuff off.
So I'm using a loaner MBP and trying to figure out how to re image the drive to what I had on my old one. Problem is that I used carbon copy cloner to clone it but didnt save it as an image, simply a clone so I have all the files there, library, users, etc.
So I figured I might as well try and image THAT set of files and then use the new image to redo the loaner computer (anybody follow me there lol)
So I did that last night but at the end I was getting messages that the image wasn't ejecting or something? Even though I had all applications closed, etc. But I could see the image on my NTFS external along with all the other folders (I'm using Macfuse and ntfs3g).
This morning I fire it up and the external shows the correct amount of space being used (ie. my files from before + this new image) but I can't see any images! And one of my large folders has no data in it - but it is still showing that it is 50 gig in size?
I plug in the external to an old dell laptop and sure enough the 50 gig folder is there and contents are A OK. But that missing 30 gig backup image is still missing? And why are all my files on the NTFS drive read only, something I seemingly can't change even in windows easily?
Can someone please suggest a course for me to use here?
I have one external drive partitioned to a HFS+ and a NTFS partition. But in order for windows to read the HFS partition (even with macdrive) the external is not formatted as a mac bootable drive. CCC was used to make a clone in the HFS partition of my old computer (ie. not image btu the files are all the same). How do I go about getting my 'old' computer on this new one? I am trying to figure this out now so I can do it properly when I get my computer back in a couple weeks.
So I'm using a loaner MBP and trying to figure out how to re image the drive to what I had on my old one. Problem is that I used carbon copy cloner to clone it but didnt save it as an image, simply a clone so I have all the files there, library, users, etc.
So I figured I might as well try and image THAT set of files and then use the new image to redo the loaner computer (anybody follow me there lol)
So I did that last night but at the end I was getting messages that the image wasn't ejecting or something? Even though I had all applications closed, etc. But I could see the image on my NTFS external along with all the other folders (I'm using Macfuse and ntfs3g).
This morning I fire it up and the external shows the correct amount of space being used (ie. my files from before + this new image) but I can't see any images! And one of my large folders has no data in it - but it is still showing that it is 50 gig in size?
I plug in the external to an old dell laptop and sure enough the 50 gig folder is there and contents are A OK. But that missing 30 gig backup image is still missing? And why are all my files on the NTFS drive read only, something I seemingly can't change even in windows easily?
Can someone please suggest a course for me to use here?
I have one external drive partitioned to a HFS+ and a NTFS partition. But in order for windows to read the HFS partition (even with macdrive) the external is not formatted as a mac bootable drive. CCC was used to make a clone in the HFS partition of my old computer (ie. not image btu the files are all the same). How do I go about getting my 'old' computer on this new one? I am trying to figure this out now so I can do it properly when I get my computer back in a couple weeks.