I've gotten myself into something of a dilemma. I have two MacBook Airs both running Lion, one that is set up as I want and one that hasn't been used yet. I've made an image file of the first computer and want to use it to "repair" the second.
So I was going along with the Disk Utility (definitely using the Migration Assistant in the future for other laptops but right now I just want to get out of the mess I've made of this first attempt) and I erased the data on the second drive. When I went to restore it, however, I run into issues.
I get to the restore tab of the Disk Utility and can see the second Air connected via thunderbolt cable so I drag that to the destination and drag the image file I have on the first Air's desktop to the source. At this point I have booted the second Air while holding T and just see the dancing Thunderbolt icon on the screen.
Anyway, I hit restore and confirm that I want to erase and replace, enter my password, but then I am told that Disk Utility has to scan the "disk image" before it can restore. I press Scan Disk Image and get the error: Unable to scan Macintosh HD (Resource busy). I've tried unmounting the drive and repeating those steps but I just get the same error.
How can I get myself out of this mess? The second Air is just empty now and it does not have a CD drive to boot from an OS CD (which I don't have anyway). I just want to restore it using the image on the first Air. How can I get around this resource busy error?
Thanks a bunch!
So I was going along with the Disk Utility (definitely using the Migration Assistant in the future for other laptops but right now I just want to get out of the mess I've made of this first attempt) and I erased the data on the second drive. When I went to restore it, however, I run into issues.
I get to the restore tab of the Disk Utility and can see the second Air connected via thunderbolt cable so I drag that to the destination and drag the image file I have on the first Air's desktop to the source. At this point I have booted the second Air while holding T and just see the dancing Thunderbolt icon on the screen.
Anyway, I hit restore and confirm that I want to erase and replace, enter my password, but then I am told that Disk Utility has to scan the "disk image" before it can restore. I press Scan Disk Image and get the error: Unable to scan Macintosh HD (Resource busy). I've tried unmounting the drive and repeating those steps but I just get the same error.
How can I get myself out of this mess? The second Air is just empty now and it does not have a CD drive to boot from an OS CD (which I don't have anyway). I just want to restore it using the image on the first Air. How can I get around this resource busy error?
Thanks a bunch!