I am cloning hard drives in my school's lab with 13 eMacs OS 10.4.9. The
tech guys came out to help me, but I am having some issues they can't seem to resolve. They mostly work on PCs. We used a software for bomach.com
called Carbon Copy Cloner. It lets you select a source to clone and a target
hard drive to send the clone to. Mostly I have been clong one drive to another via FireWire. (Carbon Copy cloner only works with FW connections.
The Tech guy made a copy of the Hard drive to Clone onto a FW Drive but
when you hold down Option to start up to see the Drive (next to the regular
drive) it does not show up. I do not know if he made a Disc Image from
Apple's Disc Utilities or not.????? Anyway, I can make the copies just fine
via FW from machine to machine. It takes about 3 hours to transfer 22 GB.
The Problem: I have 2 machines that will not work with Fire Wire. Don't know why. Any Firewire device won't show on the Desktop. How can I
copy the Hard Drive to these 2 machines? I made a Disk Image from the
Tech Guy's FW Drive of the Hard Drive I am copying. Could I use a CD
(Drive Genius is what I use) to start up the machine.....erase the Hard drive and Then....restart with a NEW CD in the machine which would be
the DMG> disc image I want and mount that on the desktop to be the new
Hard Drive????? Any suggestions would be appreciated. The Tech guy wants to come to my school and do a transfer over our Network with an
MacMini in the chain. SOunds complicated and I am in a RUSH to get these
machines back to working order by Monday.......Thanks to anyone who could
offer some help.
Don Scott
tech guys came out to help me, but I am having some issues they can't seem to resolve. They mostly work on PCs. We used a software for bomach.com
called Carbon Copy Cloner. It lets you select a source to clone and a target
hard drive to send the clone to. Mostly I have been clong one drive to another via FireWire. (Carbon Copy cloner only works with FW connections.
The Tech guy made a copy of the Hard drive to Clone onto a FW Drive but
when you hold down Option to start up to see the Drive (next to the regular
drive) it does not show up. I do not know if he made a Disc Image from
Apple's Disc Utilities or not.????? Anyway, I can make the copies just fine
via FW from machine to machine. It takes about 3 hours to transfer 22 GB.
The Problem: I have 2 machines that will not work with Fire Wire. Don't know why. Any Firewire device won't show on the Desktop. How can I
copy the Hard Drive to these 2 machines? I made a Disk Image from the
Tech Guy's FW Drive of the Hard Drive I am copying. Could I use a CD
(Drive Genius is what I use) to start up the machine.....erase the Hard drive and Then....restart with a NEW CD in the machine which would be
the DMG> disc image I want and mount that on the desktop to be the new
Hard Drive????? Any suggestions would be appreciated. The Tech guy wants to come to my school and do a transfer over our Network with an
MacMini in the chain. SOunds complicated and I am in a RUSH to get these
machines back to working order by Monday.......Thanks to anyone who could
offer some help.
Don Scott