Disk Utility Restore function not working...boot camp maybe?

Quizyote

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I recently discovered the beautifully integrated joys of iLife '06 and have been using that and some other software I own to do more varied and interesting things both personally and professionally. The problem is, when you combine iTunes with iPhoto with Comic Life with iDVD with iMovie...suddenly a 60gb drive (that has been partitioned down to 30gb to allow for a bootcamp/parallels Windows partition) just doesn't cut it for a system drive anymore.

That being the case, I picked up a 120gb hdd and an enclosure. So I put the new drive in the enclosure, formatted it, restarted off the disk, and ran Disk Utility. I attempted to restore from the old Mac volume to the new disk, but in the restore menu, I wasn't able to drag a disk to either the source or destination location...it kept highlighting the drives. I have since tried setting aside a Windows partition on the source disk in advance as well, but to no avail.

Anyone have similar experiences and/or advice that can help me out?
 
Remember now, that the partition you want to restore your OS X system to must be partitioned with the "Guid" partition scheme.
Also to do this restore I believe it would help to boot from your install DVD and run Disk Utility from there

jb
 
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