Help me restore my iMac please.
Okay there is something seriously wrong with my iMac and I don't have any type of support left from Apple. My iMac has been running really slow lately and even freezing when just having Firefox and iTunes open it's ridiculous. I'm trying to just restore and start out fresh, but my iMac won't restore! I have put in both my original Leopard disc that came with my iMac and my Snow Leopard disc and my computer just won't boot them. My optical drive reads and writes discs just fine normally.
Here is a video of what goes on when I try to restore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7_cmUrm9kA
I'm also trying to reformat my hard drive to one partition and not that 5 that it some how has become. http://imgur.com/IpqVx.png
I did create a new user and password for the fresh install. It prompted me to do that. And there was a Home icon with my username next to it. The user name is different to the user name on the back up volume.
It still didn't work. All the applications were copied but the desktop wasn't.
It said at the end of the procedure that it had been successful and would I like to quit. So I quit.
I don't know why it won't migrate. I didn't upgrade any software this time.
When I was installing the OSX disc (after erasing the hard drive), it said toward the end of the process, would I like to put files on it. And it gave me choices, Time machine, another mac etc. I said "Yes" but I only have one USB port on my computer and the install disc was attached to it through the USB port. So I disconnected the install disc and attached the external hard drive, because the message was "You can connect the other drive" or something like that. But it didn't recognize it so I just gave up and reattached the drive with the OSX install disc and went back to the installation stage that I was at and chose "Do not do it now, do it later" or something like that. Then it took me through the last few steps of installation. And after it finished, I used Migration Assistant and it still didn't work. I still have an empty Desktop though Applications successfully migrated. I don't know why I can't get the same desktop as my backup volume.
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Texas DD wrote:
Sorry but very frustrated here. My hard drive on my 320gb original drive is full so I had a 2TB put in. I have a wireless back up on Time Machine, the old hard drive in an external inclosure and an external hard drive back up that I used Carbon Copy Clone. When I follow instructions for restoring with CCC, I never seem to be able to select the right files when I click on the back up drive.
You want to start up from the clone, then clone back to the new HD.
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