Disk Copy Utility to Write HFS disk images to USB floppy & ZIP drives?

Is there a disk copy utility that allows one to copy an HFS disk image directly to an attached USB drive, bypassing the Finder? I have both 100MB ZIP & 1.44MB floppy images which need to be restored to original media.

If you don't have a Mac that can read your OS X Installer DVD, then you have no way of putting it onto the USB drive.
Although there is PC software that will enable you to read from and write to Mac formatted drives on a PC, you cannot boot a PC from a Mac installer disc. The only possible solution would be the use of third-party PC software that can read an OS X Installer DVD restore its content to an OS X formatted USB drive. Unfortunately I have no idea if there is such an animal.
Maybe you should just order an external optical drive or a replacement drive for the defective one. You might check out macsales.com. Surely UPS delivers to the "middle of nowhere."

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Can I make bootable ext disk image on USB 2.0 drive?

I would like to upgrade finally to OS X Lion. Before I do that I would like to make an image backup using something like Super Duper to an external USB 2.0 disk drive. I would like this to be a bootable image. Can I do this?

starbux48 wrote:
I would like to upgrade finally to OS X Lion. Before I do that I would like to make an image backup using something like Super Duper to an external USB 2.0 disk drive. I would like this to be a bootable image. Can I do this?
Yes, although I recommend the more intelligent Carbon Copy Cloner over Superduper just for the fact that it was first, more powerful and donationware, SD might be eaiser and offer more handholding, it's part payware.
http://www.bombich.com/get_ready_for_lion.html
You can also make a Snow Leopard boot USB key and copies of your SL disk
http://www.maciverse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html
http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/
You can also make a Lion boot USB key, disks
http://eggfreckles.net/notes/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from -a-usb-flash-drive/
I really do not recommend pre-2011 Intel Mac's (unless they are powerful, 4GB of RAM) to upgrade to Lion, however with a bootable clone of 10.6 (which is what your asking for) would get your machine back on 10.6 eaiser than a total rebuild and reinstall of 10.6.
Also a LOT of third party programs and older printer/scanner drivers/software/hardware may not work with Lion neither.
I do recommend to backup data off the machine, a fresh install of 10.6 then upgrade to 10.7, then install Lion programs and then return files method over the upgrade over 10.6 method.
To boot from the Carbon Copy Clone, hold th option key and select the external drive to boot from.
Good Luck

The backup disk image "/Volumes/3TB Seagate Expansion Drive-1/Toby's MacBook Air.sparsebundle" could not be created (error (null)).

Hi all,
Recently moved into a new place and now have my external HDD plugged into my iMac as a backup.
Just went to backup my MacBook Air, which has used the drive previously, but always through USB.
Now trying to backup wirlelessly so I do not need to remove from my iMac, but got this message:
The backup disk image “/Volumes/3TB Seagate Expansion Drive-1/Toby’s MacBook Air.sparsebundle” could not be created (error (null)).
Have tried to reset without success. Any suggestions?
Thanks

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.
The same error message? Try hooking your backup drive to your computer and run Disk Utility Repair Disk and Repair Permissions.

I am considering purchasing a new Mac desktop. I have, at present, a Liteon 851S ext CD/DVD write and a Maxtor 3200 USB ext hard drive. Will these work with a Mac desktop? My local Apple store could not answer my question.Happy New year to all.

I am considering purchasing a new Mac desktop. I have, at present, a Liteon 851S ext CD/DVD write and a Maxtor 3200 USB ext hard drive. Will these work with a Mac desktop? My local Apple store could not answer my question.Happy New year to all.

Yes the Mac can read that drive but you would need to Copy the data off of it to the Mac as apposed to Move, which implies Deleting them from the drive as they were transferred from the external to the Mac. Since the Mac can Not Write to NTFS drives it can't Delete anything as that is really a Write operation, IE Making changes to the NTFS formatted drive.
Once you have that Data on Both your New Mac and you Older Windows PC you can format that drive to work on both system.
If you want to and plan on doing that post back and I'll explane how, it is simple but should be done on a Windows PC.
If you only plan on using it on the Mac from now on that is fairly simple also and is done on the Mac, Once you have the files from it stored on the Mac.
Yes you could burn those photos to DVD but that is just a waste of DVDs, you don't need to.

Problems creating a disk image on an external hard drive

Hiya,
I've been trying to create a disk image on my dad's external hard drive to hold my back-ups all day with no luck. I've managed small ones, e.g. a few MB, but when trying to create images 20 or 40 GB in size (which is what I need), it isn't working.
When I've tried creating them in Disk Utility with the place to save them to as the external HD, it says "Unable to create... Illegal seek" which doesn't explain much to me! I have been successful in creating a large disk image on my own HD, but when I try to move it to the external HD, it says "Sorry the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occured (Error code -1309)."
Extra info:
- I am saving my back-ups in a disk image, as they must be password protected, so that's why I'm not just copying them over.
- There's plenty of space avaliable on the external HD, so it would seem that isn't the problem.
- The HD is a Freecom Classic SL, connected via USB cable.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks alot,
Charity

Found the answer. It was formatted for Windows.

Is a disk image of the whole hard drive a good way of backing up your files?

I have to make a backup of my macbook pro because its being taken to the technician.
I wanted to know if creating a disk image of the whole internal hard drive to an external one using disk utility is a good and secure way?
After this I would erase my hard drive using this thread : OS X Mavericks: Erase and reinstall OS X
Is this a good procedure? I not which one would be the best one? I read something about bootable clones but I don't seem to fully understand it and I don't know if its what im looking for.
Your help would be awesome!
Thanks!

Disk Utility>Restore will copy the OSX, the Recovery Partition and ALL user data. It will be an identical copy of the internal HDD.
Third party software such as Carbon Copy Cloner can also perform that same function, but also allow for incremental changes.
Ciao.

How can I create a bootable DISK IMAGE of my PB Internal Drive?

I would like to make a bootable image of my Hard Drive but without including any Free Space.
You see all I need on the image are the OSX and the programs, NOT the 60GB of Free Space. Disk Utility however wants to create a 80gb image which includes 60GB of Free Space.
I would like to use the Bootable image as a source image to use with the RESTORE function in Disk Utility.
Regards

You'll need a second machine or an external HDD with Mac OS X installed on it.
For purposes of this procedure I'll be calling your machine the 'source' and the second machine or your external HDD the 'target'.
First either boot the source into target mode by holding down the 'T' key while it boots. Once you see the FireWire icon on the screen, let go of the 'T' key and plug the source into the target. If you're going with the external HDD route, boot your source of off your external HDD.
Now, select the drive of your source machine, and hit Apple-I to bring up the information pane. Down at the bottom (in the permissions area) you'll see a check box labeled "Ignore ownership..." Uncheck that.
Open up Disk Utility. Select the source drive and run First Aid and Repair Permissions on it.
Now, select the File menu -> New -> New Disk Image from Folder. You're going to want to hit that big "New Image" button, but don't. Trust me. It'll only cause trouble for you down the road.
Select the source drive as the source. You can leave everything else the same and click "Image".
Select the target as the destination. Click Save.
Wait for a couple of hours (depending on how much stuff you have).
When it's done, select the Images menu -> Scan image for Restore.
Select the disk image you just made and click "Scan".
When that's done you have a restorable image. Just use the restore tab to restore it.
I've done this literally hundreds of times and it's worked every single time.

Creating floppy disk images (from Disk Utility) recognized by Parallels

Hi there,
After making the Parallels plunge last week, and installing a couple of my old OS's in it, I unearthed my old MS-DOS 6.22 disks. (remember that, boys and girls?)
With the help of my brother, I managed to export the contents onto a USB flash drive in the hopes of creating the necessary .fdd files that Parallels uses to create a virtual DOS machine.
(FYI - I already have DOSBox installed... but now with Parallels, I was looking to install the real deal)
Normally, renaming a .dmg file (created through Disk Utility) to a .fdd should force Mac OS to associate the image with Parallels, and thus allowing it to be recognized as a valid floppy image.
Unfortunately, this hasn't been the case for me. Parallels cannot recognize the disk images created as floppy drive images. Even after formatting the volume as both MS-DOS and MS-DOS (FAT 16), nothing seems to work.
I've already checked the Parallels forums, but couldn't drudge up anything. I was hoping one of the Level 3+'s here had some experience with this.
Am I missing something in the Disk Utility .dmg creation process of these files, or would I need a separate application to create a valid .img/.ima file to get this to work?
Thanks!
Steve

I am also having this issue. If I figure it out I'll post my solution. If anybody has had success it would be very helpful to know how they made proper images.

OSX G5 Disk Image and HDD manipulation... Help

Hello Everyone.
On the PC a program called Partition Magic, among others, that allows partition copy, resize, create, delete, etc.
I have used Mac disk utility, but I haven't found it to do what I'm trying to do.
I am looking for the same type of program on the Mac that will work on IMAGE FILES. If I image my HDD and it's 60Gb, but only 20Gb is used, then I have a lot of wasted space in my image file. I would like software to adjust the size UP or DOWN for a given image file. And no, I do not want to recreate the whole image everytime I resize it.
Would also like a program that works on the physical HDD to change the size of an existing partition without destroying it.
Thank you again,
Scott
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When you select either of the two options for your camera on the left, you care going to create a disk image of your entire hard drive. If you have a 60GB camera, you will have a 60GB disk image. If your camera is totally full, this may be OK. But if your camera only has 20GB and you want to back it up to a disk image, you could be wasting 40GB.
THe solution is to create a blank disk image with a custom size (that is just large enough for what you need. Make it Read / write (R/W) format. You can mount this disk image later and drag the complete contents of your camera to it.

External Drives, CDs & Disk Images Won't Mount

I am having some weird issues with my G5. I recently did a fresh install of Leopard on a brand new hard drive and everything was running smoothly. I copied a bunch of settings from another drive to keep my information intact on the new install and I didn't notice any issues. I have now started to notice that after about a day of leaving the G5 on, it no longer mounts disk images, CDs or external hard drives OR if it does in fact mount them, it takes FOREVER to do so. This also causes Disk Utility and System Profiler to crash or take a long time to start.
I don't know if this helps at all, but two new hardware additions to the machine were an internal bluetooth adapter (for use with the new Magic Mouse) and more memory. Both have been working correctly so I don't know that either is the cause of this problem.
I've tried a bunch of random things to see if I can get something to work again - fixing permissions, verifying disks, etc., but the only thing that really works is a restart. Everything stops working again about a day after the restart though.
Has anyone else encountered this sort of problem, and if so, do you have any suggestions for how to fix it? Any help would be appreciated!

So I think I may have something to show from Console regarding an external drive that took forever to attach:
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12/2/09 3:34:42 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x819000 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:34:42 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x819000 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:34:52 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 387
12/2/09 3:35:02 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 387
12/2/09 3:35:02 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 387
12/2/09 3:35:02 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x819000 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:35:02 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x819000 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:35:24 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 181
12/2/09 3:35:24 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x80ec00 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:35:24 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x80ec00 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:35:34 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 181
12/2/09 3:35:36 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 379
12/2/09 3:35:36 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 379
12/2/09 3:35:36 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x81de00 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:35:40 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 18245
12/2/09 3:35:40 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 18245
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12/2/09 3:35:40 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x81a000 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:35:44 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 181
12/2/09 3:35:44 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x80ec00 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:35:44 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x80ec00 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
12/2/09 3:35:50 PM fseventsd[40] callback_client: ERROR: d2fcallbackrpc() => (ipc/send) timed out (268435460) for pid 18245
12/2/09 3:36:00 PM fseventsd[40] client: 0x81a000 : USER DROPPED EVENTS!
Any clue as to what this is?

Error saving a project as disk image in iDVD '08

I don't have a Super Drive so I'm trying to save my project as a disk image so that I can create the actual DVD at work, but after an hour or more of going through the whole encoding, etc. process, it ends up giving me an error message. Does anyone have any idea why it may do this? Can't I still create a disk image without having a Super Drive?

Hi b
To little info to give a true answer - just guessings.
• WHAT DID the error message say ?
• free space on Your internal (start-up) hard disk ? > 25Gb works OK
• what kind of movie files did You import into iDVD ?
To do a DiskImage should be OK and copy to an external hard disk for burning on another
Mac with Apple Disk Util tool or Toast™ - is a way that works for many users.
• How many minutes are Your movie/s and what menu did You select ?
• What type of encoding did You select; Pro Quality, High Quality or Hight Performances ?
• PAL in iMovie and in iDVD or NTSC in iMovie and in iDVD ?
I would delete iDVD pref file and
Repair Permissions and
eventuallt start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
Yours Bengt W

"Authentication error", making disk image

I'm trying to make a disk image of my OS X boot disk, as an emergency backup. I'm booting from the Installation CD that came with my Mac Pro, and using Disk Utility. I select my boot drive, click New Image, and tell it to save to an external firewire drive, compressed and encrypted. It starts and quickly errors out, with "Authentication error." What does this mean?
I've used 250 GB of the 500 GB on my boot drive, and my external drive is 120 GB. I'd rather tell it to skip some files to save space, but it doesn't give me the option to do that. Will "compress" get it to be small enough? Is this why I'm getting an error? I've repaired permissions before booting from the CD.

I don't know about the authentication error; however, to make a disk image of 250 GB source drive to a 120 GB target is an exercise in futility. There's not enough room. 250 GB? What are storing? A complete music store, the movies of Hollywood, or the pictures in an art gallery?
If you want an emergency backup of your 500 GB HD, then you'll need an external at least as big. BTW, making disk images for this purpose is fraught with danger since you can't ensure that it's good until you restore it to a bootable HD. I strongly recommend something like Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, etc. instead. BTW, you can just drag & drop any data files from one HD to another. There's no need to put them in a disk image and certainly no need to encrypt things. If you decide to go the bootable backup route, move the data files to root-level and don't back those up. That should make your emergency backup a lot smaller.

IDVD freezes when attempting to make a disk image

I created an iMovie, edited it and added music. I clicked Create DVD within iMovie and created my .dvdproj. I then attempted to create a Disk Image in iDVD and the application just keeps freezing during the Process Movies stage. What would be causing this??? This is becoming increasingly frustrating.
I have 37G of space available on my iBook and 92G of space on my external hard drive. I attempted the last disk image from the external hard drive. Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.
Mike

I don't recall if I formatted the Lacie exteranl hard drive when I purchased it, and I now have files/photos, etc saved to it.
problem is, formatting a drive means erasing all content... using Disk Utitily, choose connected drive - you can read in the lower third, how it is formatted.. if FAT32, you have to save the data "somewhere else" (me wiseguy..burn some data DVDs..), and then format to hfs/MacOsExtended, most ext.hd are out-of-the-box formatted for PC, as said, that works with a Mac, but not with video files....
Yes, some of the music was purchased through iTunes.
AHA!!
… there's a time consuming, legal workaround:
do you know, how to create audioCDs with iTunes? link to Apple doc
make a playlist of your purchased tunes, burn an audioCD..
then, sorry to say that, re-import from that audioCD back to iTunes/or drag'n drop files directly into your iM project's timeline...
this process is needed, to get rid of the copyprotection which is installed inside the aacs you bought from iTMS... that workaround is legal and Apple recommended (lost that link to some Apple doc...anyone?)
... I've read here many people experiencing that "frozen" iDVD because of usage of iTMS music, I don't know why Apple has not implemented some "warning message" in iDVD/iM, telling the average user that issue ("you try to use copy protected music - please follow advise... - something like that..
happy copying!
PS: 29Gb is fine... iDVD needs 10 - 15GB for some temp files (which are not shown in finder and will vanish after burning), and your Mac needs some 5Gb to be a happy Mac...

Can't create disk image: "Resource in use"

I'm trying to make a disk image of my internal hard drive on my external hard drive using Disk Utility, prior to installing a new internal hard drive, so I can migrate the original hard drive's contents to the new internal hard drive. But when I go to Disk Utility, and try to make a disk image of the internal hard drive (File>New>Disk Image from Drive[name]), it briefly starts to make the copy but then quickly goes to a screen that says "Unable to create "disk0.dmg. Resource busy"
ANY CLUES AT TO WHAT THIS MEANS?
IS THERE ANY BETTER WAY TO MAKE A FULL COPY OF MY CURRENT INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR THE PURPOSE OF COPYING BACK ONCE I HAVE A NEW HARD DRIVE INSTALLED?
Thanks!

It's not actually a bug, it's just not possible. Windows won't even let you backup the system drive while you are booted in it. You need third party software, such as SuperDuper, CCC (Carbon Copy Clone), or Norton Ghost (Windoz only).
It must be done while not booted onto the primary system. Using the Disk Utility while booted from the installatin disk is possible, but not recommended. Best to use DU from OS X of the same minor version to create the disk image. Example, if your system is OS X 10.4.9 use DU from 10.4.9 to create the disk. This is only possible if you have another computer connected to yours.
An alternative, is to have a bare bones copy of OS X 10.4.9 (or whatever your version is) on an external drive. Make sure it's updated with the latest updates and the permissions are verifided. Then copy your primary volume while booted from the external drive.
Check out Michael Snow's comments:
http://macosg.com/group/viewtopic.php?t=12990&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Also:
"Good reading about the effectiveness of various backup tools on OS X.
http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools- under-mac-os-x/ "
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2.16GHz CoreDuo, 2GB RAM

Making encrypted disk image takes hours?!

Before I made a Time Machine backup, I wanted to use Disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image on an external hard drive. This way, my computer backup is password protected.
So I set the file for 200G at 128 bit encryption.
That was 12 hours ago. According to the progress bar, Disk Utility is still only one-quarter done with creating the disk image.
Is it normal for Disk Utility to take a full day (possibly two) to create a disk image of this size? Is there any way to create a password-protected disk image quicker? (And, for what it's worth, the external drive is formatted for Mac OS Extended, Journaled.)
Thanks for any advice on this...

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
I'm not quite sure just what you're trying to do.
Are you planning to have Time Machine back-up to that encrypted disk image? If so, that's not going to work. When you start Time Machine, it will create a Backups.backupdb folder on whatever drive or partition you select, then place it's backups in that folder, not in a disk image.
If you want to encrypt your whole home folder, you can use File Vault (System Preferences > Security > File Vault). That will encrypt your entire home folder. But that's almost certainly vast overkill, and has many complications of it's own. Read up on it thoroughly before deciding to do it.
If you have a few files that you want to encrypt, create a (smaller) encrypted disk image on your internal HD, in your home folder. Then copy the documents into it, and securely-delete the originals.
Then TM can back-up your entire system "as is" -- without the overhead of encrypting OSX, your apps, configuration, and everything else in your home folder, but the disk image (and it's backup copy) will still be encrypted.

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