License question: Changing boot drives.

I want to replace my boot drive with one imaged from the old drive.
Do I need to somehow deactivate the license on the old drive before I change? (A few years back I ran out of activations on Acrobat because I kept 'testing' my backup drives to see if they worked. Mistake on my part.)

Since software was distributed on 5 1/4" discs, software developers exploited dozens of tricky ways to identify media to prevent unauthorized copying. Usually without explaining to customers what might invalidate their software. In my case with Acrobat, I could find nothing in my user manuals, help nor advertising material that explained that running a disc restore on a new drive would use up an authorization. But it did. Without telling me. And I had to stop using Acrobat until I bought a new copy.
I have never seen any drive image software that promised a physically/electrically identical copy that could guarantee no authorization problems. Are there some? I pay for my software - but I have abandoned tools that are too hard to keep authenticated. Less common in the last 5 years and there really isn't a decent single source of so many fine tools as Adobe. And hard drives fail so much less often than they did in the 90's.
I was just hoping someone at Adobe could help me carry out a reasonable step that a customer might want to take. Thanks to Jose above for a good suggestion.

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Changing Boot Drives and Keep Your Time Machine History

A problem with Time Machine is that it is specific to the target and backup drives. Change one or the other and TM will want to do a new full backup. If you don't have enough space, it will delete your old backups. HOWEVER, this is a way to install a new boot (or other) drive that TM is backing up and get it to pick up where it left off doing incremental backups. This is extremely helpful if you change your boot drive. In my case, I moved from a HDD to an SSD but wanted to keep my history intact. TIme Machine "knows" which drive to backup based on the UUID (unique drive identifier) so merely changing the name of the drive in the Finder won't do it. You need to change the UUID in the latest backup of TM.
Note: This is not for the faint of heart or technically challenged. It also requires a mild knowledge of unix or at least the ability to follow instructions TO THE LETTER! You will change the UUID from the Latest Backup in Time Machine from the "old" drive to the "new" drive thus tricking TM into thinking the new drive is the old drive and it will continue to do incremental backups of the new drive. The technique described below was originally developed under OS 10.5 (and posted on the MAC OS HINTS 10.5 blog but I have just used it under Snow Leopard. It might work for newer OSs but I haven't tried them. I actually did 2 things: 1) Installed a larger TM drive and 2) installed a SSD as a boot drive. I will post under a different title to provide information on installing a larger TM drive since putting that information here may be confusing.
You will need 2 Unix commands: xattr and fsaclctl. xattr is included in OS 10.6 Unix shell but fsaclctl is not. You will have to get fsaclctl from a version of OS 10.5 using the techniques described in the article posted below. I had an old 10.5 disc and found it in: /sbin/fsaclctl at the root directory of my 10.5 hard drive. I also performed the technicque described below logged in as root but this may merely logged in as an administrotor.
** How to change your boot (or any other) drive and get Time Machine to just pick up where it left off doing incremental backups and not do a full backup of the new drive:
1) Turn OFF Time Machine
2) Install the new drive
3) Clone the old drive to the new drive (in my case HDD -> SSD) using SuperDuper, CarbonCopyCloner or even Disk Utility
4) Make sure you have both xattr and fsaclctl commands installed
5) Open Terminal
6) Follow the instructions here:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090213071015789&query=time+machine +new+disc
Note: you may need to use the command switch "l" (the letter l) to see the ascii version of the UUID
sudo xattr -l com.apple.backupd.SnapshotVolumeUUID my_partition
Note: Unix uses spaces (white space) as delimiters and is always case sensitive so if you have spaces in the name of your drives, you MUST put the drive name in quotation marks:
if the drive name is: My HDD then to list the contents of the drive in Unix would use the command ls thus:
> ls "My HDD"
will list the contents of My HDD
(the command: > ls My HDD (without quotation marks) will produce an error - no such file or directory)
When you've followed the above procedure and turned Time Machine back on, the first time TM may warn you that the disc has been changed and "someone may be trying to trick your computer" into using the new drive. Answer: do the backup
I wish I could take credit for this brilliant technique but I just followed it and it worked for me. I also read the entire thread before starting.

The two drives are handled as separate drives, even if they have the same name.
In essence, the old backups are from a drive that's no longer connected; see #E3 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.

Change boot drive source in windows 8.1

Need to disable secure boot option in bios and change boot source to cd . How to do this in windows 8.1

Hi,
Please post the HP product number for your PC. How to Find the HP Model Number and the HP Product Number or let HP automatically find your PC model number and HP network attached printers.
HP Secure Boot Windows 8 Topics
You have an UEFI enabled PC and if you want to boot from CD and if the CD material supports UEFI then the CD must in the drive when you power on the PC.
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Reinstallation questions after boot drive replacement

I joined CC last year. At the time I had Lightroom 5 installed and upgraded via various upgrade discs as well as CS5 which I arrived at via various upgrade discs. When I joined the CC it downloaded the latest versions of both Lightroom and CS.
So now I will be starting over with a new boot drive and fresh reinstalled windows 7 ultimate installation. My lightroom catalog was on another hard drive so it was unaffected. My questions are as follows: Do I need to reinstall Lightroom and CS from my various discs? Or can I simply access CC from the link in my join up email and will it download the latest versions of those programs without me having any previous versions on the hard drive. My final question is once I do have Lightroom downloaded again will it seek out and find my Lightroom catalog on the other hard drive? Or do I manually have to link Lightroom to the catalog and then it will work as it did before? Thanks for any help.

This is mainly a user-to-user forum. And many, many Creative Cloud users never use Lightroom so they're unfamiliar with how it works. That's why you should post product questions in the appropriate product user forums.
once I do have Lightroom downloaded again will it seek out and find my Lightroom catalog on the other hard drive?
Not likely.
Nancy O.

Changing boot drives

I want to boot my mac from a DiskWarrior CD. Then run the DiskWarrior program. Then reboot from the hard drive. Does anyone remember the keyboard commands to change the boot drive?

To boot from any CD or DVD insert the disc then restart the computer. After the chime press and hold down the "C" key until the spinning gear appears beneath the dark gray Apple logod.
You can also switch boot drives by using the Startup Disk preference pane or by holding down the 'OPTION" key after the startup chime until the boot manager screen appears.

Changing boot drive at startup

I have a loan of a PBG3, 300 MHz running System 9.2.
I have a scsi adaptor for it.
I have multiple scsi drives, both external and internal from (1) a IIsi and (2) a performa 6300 CD.
I could not get the IIsi to boot. However, the drive was spinning up, so I was hopeful that if I put it in an external enclosure and attached it to a computer that talks scsi, that it would come up. It tries to. In fact, it tries to snatch the boot from the PBG3, whereupon I get a message saying that the PBG3 can't run that old an operating system.
I just went and looked at the pdf of the manual that is on the apple website. It did not deal with this issue. Does anyone out there know if there is a set of keys that I can hold down to force boot drive selection at startup, before the external tries to hijack the boot? I checked, and the startup drive appears to be listed as the powerbook. At least, it is selected when I look at the control panel.
I plan to go through the same process with the performa drive. I'm pretty sure it's running 7.6, (the IIsi probably has 7.1 on it), so I'll probably have the same problem.
Sharon

It tries to. In fact, it tries to snatch the boot from the PBG3, whereupon I get a message saying that the PBG3 can't run that old an operating system.
Macs will seldom run any OS older that what they shipped with. The oldest OS shipped with the earliest Wallstreets G3s was 8.1; yours probably shipped with something newer. If you really need to boot those drives, they will have to be attached to an older Mac.
According to the MacTracker database, the 6300 has an ATA drive. Much easier to deal with if you only need to recover files. A gadget like this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/
allows you to connect a bare drive to any USB-equipped computer.

Change boot drive

After i use carbon copy cloner to transfer clone my old hard drive over to my new ssd drive how do i make my mac pro boot from the ssd drive

Select it from the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences, or restart with the Option key held down and tab to it.
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Boot Drive Randomly Changed in BIOS

The PC will randomly change boot drives to some other drive, be it internal or USB attached. I thought it was my boot drive, but I recently changed it and for about a week things seemed fine. This morning, it switched to my BD_DVD drive, and when I switched it back, it reset itself back to the DVD drive. I reset again and this time it worked.
OS is Win 8.1
10 MB mem
Boot drive is 4TB, one partition (listed as 2nd drive in BIOS.)
Second drive (though listed as first in BIOS) is 3TB with no OS files on it
Multiple external drives through USB 2.0 and 3.0
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thank you

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Removing the battery will invalidate the system clock and BIOS settings will be the defaults as delivered by HP.
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Having difficulty in Win 8.1 changing boot order drive at the Bios level

My desktop computer has 32GB of DDR3-1600Mhz Memory plus a 128GB SSD boot drive "C" and 2 2TB SATA drives and finally a 1TB Sata drive.
My problem is that the 128GB SSD drive is maxed out space wise. I want to change the boot drive to the 1TB drive, but when I go into the Bios, and slect "Boot Order" it only lists two CD Rom drives and "Windows Boot Manager". If i go out to look at available drives, it shows all my drives. How the heck can I select the 1TB drive to become the boot drive if its not even listed under "Boot Drives"?
Using disk partitioning software, it advises that before copying everything over from the boot SSD drive to the new 1 TB drive, I should change the boot drive so that when it starts up again, it will go directly to the correct drive.
Thanks so much,
Ken

That is impressive for a OEM. However, I think it is probably not a good idea to try to make a different drive the boot drive. Typically with a unit set up like that, the SSD is only used for essentially the OS and special programs that need the extra speed of the SSD. Then use the other drives for data and nonessential ( for speed ) software. About the only advice I can give is to reassess the way software is installed to get some things off the SSD or replace the SSD with a larger capacity unit. I think switching boot drives will be a nightmare you will not enjoy.
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Boot Drive failed to be found - Question Marks ???

I recently used SuperDuper to clone my primary OSX 10.4 Tiger startup disk to a second internal hard drive in my Intel MacPro, and now I am experiencing strange behavior when booting from the Cloned drive...
To start with, let me first say that upoin successfully cloning my main OS onto the secondary internal drive, I removed my primary drive from my machine and replaced it with a cleanly formatted blank drive for data storage...in other words, there is currently only one capable startup disk in my machine at the moment...
So when running my OS from my new Clone OS drive, everything works fine when the OS is running, and things are fine and dandy...When I restart my computer, the machine loads right back up as if everything is totally normal and functioning perfect.
But then I went ahead and shutdown the machine for a short while, and upon returning and attempting to power up again, the startup process brings me to the FLASHING QUESTION MARK icon shortly after hitting the power button (as if for one reason or another, its not seeing my OS)...
The only way I can get the machine to work again, is by force-quitting the flashing question mark screen thereby powering back down; then restarting holding the 'option' key, and choosing my Clone boot drive from the list of startup discs (as it does show up as the only available drive in this list...)...Then my computer loads back up again, and things are working as normal, again, as if there were no problems...I test restarting a few times - no problem...I then re-test shutting down and powering back on again...QUESTIONS MARKS AGAIN!!
Anyone have any idea what the heck is going on, and how I should go about handling this?
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

Are you sure you have the startup disk set correctly in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?
If so, try zapping the PRAM. Reboot while holding down command-option-p-r. Continue holding them down until after the third startup bong, then release. After the Mac boots, try setting the prefs again and see if it sticks then.
If not, I suspect you might have a dead PRAM battery. Try shutting your Mac down, then disconnect the power cord and the internet. Reconnect the power cord but leave the internet disconnected. Boot the Mac. If your time and date is set to sometime last century, you need a new PRAM battery.

After boot drive replacement questions

My boot drive, on which the Lightroom 5 software was located, failed and I just got the boot drive replaced and downloaded Lightroom 5. Fortunately my Lightroom 5 Catalog Previews, Catalog Preview.Irdata and all important Lightroom Library were located on a separate drive that was not impacted by the boot drive failure. How do I go about linking those files to the Lightroom 5 I just reinstalled?

Apparently the computer repair place saw fit to rename the drives that were not impacted in any way by the boot disk failure. So when I double clicked the catalog I ended up with all questions marks under folders in Lightroom. I have googled looking at "find missing folders" and "synchronize" and found nothing that makes obvious sense to me. When I tried the missing folders option I get a message that "the selected folder or one of its subfolders is already in Lightroom. Do you want to combine these folders" And then gives me the option to merge or cancel. I have chosen cance as this doesn't sound right. Any more help would be appreciated.

Changing ZFS options on boot drive before install

Hello,
I would like to install Solaris on a new server but I am hoping that it's possible to set up ZFS on the boot drive (which happens to be an SSD), modify some of the options and then have Solaris install onto this.
In particular, I would like to change the number of copies to 2. It's my understanding that if this is changed after install, it only affects newly written data. Unfortunately I cannot fit anymore drives into this machine, otherwise I could add a mirror instead.
I could install Solaris, modify the options and reinstall and select the existing partitions, but the installer indicates that this will be wiped (I assume reformatting and losing my changes).
Is it possible? I was planning on using the Live USB installer but perhaps I'd need to use an alternate install. I've been doing a bit of searching but not having much luck.
Alternatively, is there a way to modify the option and have ZFS duplicate the blocks for existing data?
Thanks for any help
David

HI David,
You can set ZFS pool or file system options during an AI install but I don't think there is a way to set copies=2 for existing data after the root pool data is written. Some options can be set after the data is written but this isn't one of them.
I have set pool options during an AI install and the syntax should be similar for a file system option. The syntax placement is a little tricky.
A non-redundant root pool on a server with copies=2 doesn't provide real redundancy for your data. The copies=2 option is suggested for
one-disk laptops, where there is no other option. I wouldn't depend on copies=2 to protect your data on a server. Yes, it might help in some
cases, but if the disk fails, then copies=2 is unlikely to help. Please consider a mirrored root pool for your server.
Thanks, Cindy

Boot Drive Questions

Hi all,
This may be a bit of a newbie question, but I had a question (or questions) regarding the boot drive on a G5. Does the boot sector have to be on a drive connected to a specific SATA port? For example, if I buy a new drive and want to boot from it, does it need to replace the current drive (thereby moving the current drive to the second connector)? Or can I just plug it into the available connector, install OS X, and select it as my boot device?
The corollary to this would be: how difficult is it to move my OS and apps from the one drive to the other? Is there any reason I cannot simply copy the entire contents and reboot?
Alternatively, if there are any good resources to get up to speed on this stuff, I'd appreciate a point in thier direction.
Thanks!

Hi Michael, and a Warm Welcome to Apple Discussions and the Power Mac G5 forum!
You can boot from any drive or partitioned volume of a drive that has a bootable system on it - drive bay A or B or an external drive.
You can set the default boot drive in System Preferences - Startup Disc - and you can select an alternative by holding down the option(alt) key at startup.
To create a new boot drive you would have to either install OS X on the drive or create a clone of your current boot drive with with CCC
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
or SuperDuper
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
copying would not result in a 'bootable' drive.
Please post again if any of this is not clear.

Boot drive died, a question

Dont know if this is the right forum to put this in.
My boot drive in my Mac Pro just died (blue screen of death) But I have it back up and running with a bootable copy that I made of that drive, my question is, I would like to see if I could somehow mount this dead drive to see if I run disk utility on it, When I put it in the drive bay with the bootable copy I have running now, on startup, it just goes back to the blue screen, any tips on how to do this.
Thank you much...in advance.

Press & hold +V (or Option+V depending on the labeling of your keyboard) while you power up the system. This will cause it to boot 'verbosely' -- meaning you'll see all the messages indicating what the computer is doing as it boots. You will see LOTS of messages (normal), but you may see messages that give a clue as to why it's taking extra long to boot (e.g. device failure / retries, etc.) (Note that if you boot 'verbosely' then when you shut down it will also do so verbosely (you'll see more messages as it shuts down.)
It's possible your hard drive is failing and requires several "retries" to successfully read. In which case it can't be trusted and needs to be replaced.
You might also run the "Console" app and check the messages being logged.
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Change hdd2 to the primary boot drive

My Pavillion has two hdd. I have cloned the boot drive (1) to the secondary drive (2). Now I want to move drive 2 into the primary drive bay as the boot drive. What is required to accomplish this. Are there bios settings to change or pin settings on the drives that need changing?

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