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reinstalling 5.1 – how do I boot form a clone?
Sorry for this basic Q:
How do I boot from a clone (CarbonCopyCloner) I made that lives on an external drive (ESATA via Express 3/4 card on my MB Pro)
Just want to make sure I can get it all back should my Studio 2 install go awry…
Thanks,
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System Prefs — Startup Disk
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Just hold down option while starting up the computer the choose the drive you wish to boot from.
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Thanks David,
And that’ll even work with the .dmg file CarbonCopy created?
Does the file have to be the only thing on the drive? I’ve got it residing within a folder on my external, which contains a few other folders as well
Paul
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[Paul] “And that’ll even work with the .dmg file CarbonCopy created?”
Nope, you evidently did not use the defaults in CC Cloner. You should have simply chosen a source drive and target drive and let it create the clone. You’ll need to do it again.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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BTW, it should be a clean, drive or partition erased using Apple Disk Utility.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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And since you are on an intel, make SURE to format your drive as GUID partition scheme instead of the default APM. You do this by hitting the partition tab then choosing options in the Disk Utility.
Also, you have to make sure that your eSATA rig is bootable, some of them are not (as the drivers don’t load until the operating system is loaded).
Jeremy
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Got it. I tried again on a clean drive and that did it. It’s all goo now.
Thanks,
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[Paul] “It’s all goo now.”
You turned your hard drive to goo? Nice one.
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Whoops. Typo. Should read ‘good’
Paul
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