Restoring a disk image to a hard drive (disk utility issues)

[Killyp]

Hey

Throughout the course of today, I was working on re-installing OS X. There were so many software updates, and little apps that I had installed, relied on and forgotten about that I decided once I'd booted into a fresh install of OS X that I wanted to go back.

That's fine, I have a Disk Image of my MacBook Pro's hard drive which I made with disk utility just before beginning the fresh OS X install.

However, when I boot from the OS X disk and open Disk Utility, I can select the disk image for restoring, but I CANNOT select a destination drive to restore onto. It just says 'drag a disk here to restore onto', but where do I drag the disk from? I can't pick up any of the drives on the left, it just highlights them.


Anybody got any ideas? Or know how I could restore the disk image onto my hard drive by another means? I'll have a play with Live CDs of Linux Distros to see if I can get them to do what I want, but in the meantime, any suggestions would be INCREDIBLY helpful! I'm without a Mac!! 😱

 

[bmcgonag]

However, when I boot from the OS X disk and open Disk Utility, I can select the disk image for restoring, but I CANNOT select a destination drive to restore onto. It just says 'drag a disk here to restore onto', but where do I drag the disk from? I can't pick up any of the drives on the left, it just highlights them.

So, let me get the flow straight. You are booting from OS X DVD or CD, selecting Disc Utility >> Restore

Then you select the external drive or MBP Drive disc image you made. No problem.

The problem exists on selecting the hard drive of the other Mac?

If this is the case, did you erase that Hard Drive, and partition it with an appropriate format?

Usually this is the problem when i restore. Just make sure you are erasing the correct drive, then re-partition it, name it OS X if you like, and then try the restore.

Hope this helps,

Brian (sorry if I'm wrong about what's happening.)

 

[lesbarn]

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I finally was able to create a custom restore DVD by using the installer DVD image and combining with a custom image that I created. The DVD boots fine and disk utility launches, but I cannot select a drive for restoring. I even wiped then entire drive. I read on various sites that said you cannot boot from the install DVD and restore an image, but others say you can. I even played around with asr restore in terminal, but it was not able to find the image I created. Any suggestions? I would really like to be able to restore this way. I have 48 MacBooks and doing regular installs takes forever.