PPC Mac restore from GUID Partition on exterior HDD?

In order to provide a bootable backup for my Intel iMac, I plan to reformat my external firewire/USB HDD (Maxtor OneTouch II) into several partitions using the GUID partition scheme. My question is whether I can use the remaining partitions on the Maxtor to do non-bootable backups of my G4 and iBook computers. With respect to my iBook, for example, if I clone its hard drive to one of the Maxtor GUID partitions, can I then, booting from the iBook installation disk, use DU to restore it back to my iBook as a fully functional system? My objective is to avoid buying a second external hard drive to support the PPC Macs.
Intel iMac, 20", 1GB Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Intel iMac, 20", 1GB Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi-
It's best to just get a retail version of Leopard for your PPC machine, especially since asking how to use the install discs from one machine, which are licensed to only one machine, is asking someone to tell you how to violate the EULA.

Similar Messages

Delete my win 7 but cannot restore from recovery partition any more

Hello,
I tried to restore my computer to a fresh install, but instead using the restore to default I pressed the delete all
so I don't even got a windows.
I install win7 from USB and I can see the TOSHIBARECOVERY partition in the disk management.
How can I restore my computer from this partition to factory mode?
Is it possible?
I know I can buy the recovery disc from Toshiba, but I bought this computer in the US, and now IM in Israel for the next year, so there is no possible shipping to here. So I would like to download it.
Thanks,
Nati

Hey.
Same problem here.
I saw something on internet that you either have to have the OS which came with the laptop to do recovery or the DVD for restoring.
Which is huge amount of idiocity.
Why can't the program to make DVD be placed on D drive with the HDD recovery.
And charge that MUCH to get DVD with piece of software that you are supposed to have for free.
Ok shipping and DVD but why can't we select download the recovery ISO instead?
This is just milking MONEY out of customers who accidentaly made a mistake and cannot recover the factory settings.
I see no reason why the recovery DVD can't be put on internet.

New Mac, restore from Time Machine

My MacBookPro crashed today- hardware problem and in the process corrupted my email folder- not sure how or why. I bought a new machine and when I restored from Time Machine back-up, discovered that the most recent back-up had the corrupted mail file. Is there any way to go back in time, on a new machine, using a back-up from a different one. In other words, I want to restore from a Time Machine state that is 5 hours previous to the most recent back-up. Hope this makes sense.

yes, you can do it but if you need only Mail then it's simplest to restore just your Mail data rather than reinstalling everything which will take a while.
quit Mail. control-click on TM in the dock and choose "browse other TM disks". scroll back to the time you need and navigate to /Users/username/Library
restore the file /Users/username/Library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist and the directory /users/username/library/mail to the corresponding locations on your new hard drive (delete the existing items first). start Mail. it will say it needs to import your messages. this actually means reindex. let it do so and you should be back to normal after it's done reindexing.

System restore from recovery partition

Yes, this question has probably been asked many times, but I cannot find a working answer in this forum. Apologies for that.
Something corrupted very important files on my Sattelite L870D in a way that it doesn't boot any more. I can power it up in the recovery partition on the disk (F12+power). It goes into all teh possible options and such.
But, is there a way I can recover back the factory image, or at least bootable Windows 8.1 image from this recovery partition? There are two disks ther - X: and H: - with some files. One of the recovery options asks to use a disk - either extenal DVD/USB or network. Is it the only option? There are no working images on those partitions on the HDD (other than C?

Hi Mike:
The second chapter of this saga.
I did order the recovery USB.
I did what it was asking and wiped out the HDD clean.
But the system is still unstable.
It took a very long time to configure itself. Several times I had to run the process again because it would either not boot or it would be just sitting there at the attached screen.
Sometimes it would go to Win8 boot window, but then suddenly come back to the same screen.
It seems that HDD is completly out. What is the warranty on the HDD? This laptop is just two years old.
And a side note: we had to send it for repairs twice already for monitor issues; the keyboard is not flat; there are some loose parts inside. I really expected better quality from such a reputable brand as TOSHIBA.
-Ilya.
Attachments:
DSC_4459.JPG ‏4332 KB

Restore from time machine to SSD/HDD iMac

Hi,
I had to erase HDD/SDD on my 2011 iMac with both SSD and HDD drives. The system was installed on the 256 GB SSD ("Macintosh HD) and the user accounts on the much larger 2 TB HDD ("Macintosh HD 2"). I was able to restore the SSD with the system, software etc. Also one smaller account that was previously on the SSD also made the cut. However, I didn't figure out how to restore also the contents to the HDD and whenever I've tried to use the Migration Assistant I was told that there is no need to restore the user accounts that were sitting on the HDD (in fact, Migration Assistant said that there is only "1 kb" to transfer). I've then tried to manually copy the user accounts from time machine (on a Time Capsule) to the HDD but I've waited for hours (my account is roughly 1 TB big) - only to get error messages about permissions. Same story happened when I tried to log into my empty user account and tried to use time machine to restore my folders.
How is this system supposed to work in the first place? Shouldn't the user accounts on the HDD be restored 'automatically' during a restore or when using migration assistant?
Look forward to hear from you.

samaki wrote:
"This user's data doesn't need to be transferred")
That seems to mean, their home folders aren't on the OSX drive, so Migration Assistant doesn't need to (or can't) transfer them.
We've asked Apple to address this, but it doesn't seem real common, and would make the Assistants rather complicated, especially for newbies.
I've tried out many things I had come to get used to from 12+ years on the Mac
Yeah, it ends up being a bit of a conundrum. That's why it's often best to leave the home folders on the Startup drive, but put the data on the HD.
I've made a note to try to find a better workaround for your situation (the Disk Utility thing is fine, space permitting). I tried a bunch of finagles when I wrote that page, but maybe something will turn up with a fresh start.
Retrospectively, perhaps, it was a mistake to have the time machine backup sitting on a user account specific folder on the time capsule (named after my first name) instead of the standard "Data". Both the setup assistant after flatting the drives and reinstalling 10.8 and the Migration Assistant seem to have had trouble to recognise the password protected location.
It does complicate things.
For the future I'd loved to know what one could do to streamline this should the need arise again?
What I'm thinking of is, if you still have access to the old Mac, to create default home folders on the SSD, point the accounts to them, so they can sign on. Then either transfer directly from the old Mac, or do a backup and transfer from it. Log on to each user account, copy the home folder, then redirect the account to that one. Sounds promising, but there are a couple of "gotchas" there, I think.
I'll let you know, and revise that page accordingly, if I figure something out.
Thanks for the feedback - - it gets me thinking.

Restoring from recovering partition also MS Office bought from Dell

I bought from Dell a Vostro 3550 including a MS Office 2010 licence 3 years and half ago. The PC always worked fine but in the last few months its startup with Windows 7 Professional is getting slower and slower, while with Ubuntu (it is now a dual boot machine) performances continue to be good. So I decided to restore the original operating system from the recovery partition, but I'm not sure that this will restore not only Windows 7 Professional but also the legal and activated copy of MS Office I bought from Dell.
I was able to get with Belarc Advisor and similar tools the activation key for MS Office, but I would like to know if
- there are ways to check if in the recovery partition there is also what is required for restoring MS Office
- from you experience when Dell sells Ms Office with one of its PCs, MS Office is included in the recovery partition too
Last point: I went to Dell download center by providing my service tag / express service code, but MS Office is not in the list of software I can download for my PC.
Thanks in advance for any help

Some paid software is in My Dell Downloads. Office might not be in the restore partition, but as long as you have the key that came on the card you received with the computer, you can download from Office Downloads. The Belarc key might not be your individual key, but your Dell OEM generic key. That won't work. See if you have a sticker on the computer with the Office key.
Office downloads for US--
https://www2.downloadoffice2010.microsoft.com/usa/registerkey.aspx?culture=EN-US&ref=backup&country_id=US
See if you can download a copy before doing a restore. Also run a disk check to see if the drive is failing. And remember that after 3-4 years, restore to factory settings might not work at all. Have good copies of important files and all reinstallation media for programs.

Can't system restore from recovery partition, please help!

To start my info is: HP MINI 210-1003sa I have tried accessing recovery manager from the start menu, also tried accessing it by pressing f8, repair computer and f11 system restore isn't lit up as an option to click. It says my netbook has no recovery partition yet when I go to my computer drive D is the recovery partition. I have also downloaded the hp program that creates a bootable system restore USB stick but when I boot from it it just loads up windows. I really need to reset to factory settings ASAP, please help.

Hi Mike:
The second chapter of this saga.
I did order the recovery USB.
I did what it was asking and wiped out the HDD clean.
But the system is still unstable.
It took a very long time to configure itself. Several times I had to run the process again because it would either not boot or it would be just sitting there at the attached screen.
Sometimes it would go to Win8 boot window, but then suddenly come back to the same screen.
It seems that HDD is completly out. What is the warranty on the HDD? This laptop is just two years old.
And a side note: we had to send it for repairs twice already for monitor issues; the keyboard is not flat; there are some loose parts inside. I really expected better quality from such a reputable brand as TOSHIBA.
-Ilya.
Attachments:
DSC_4459.JPG ‏4332 KB

PPC Mac upgrade from 10.4.11 to 10.5.6 disabled memory

I have a G4 PowerBook and I just upgraded to 10.5.6. For some reason the system only sees one of my two 512 mb memory chips it says the other slot is empty. This memory was factory installed when I bought the computer. It was fine before I upgraded. Any Ideas?

Note, Best I can tell the later PowerBook G4's have problems with the Lower Memory slot. My Daughter has been using a 15" / 1.67 G4 that we purchased in July 2005 and bought Apple Care at that time. Starting in May of 2008 it stopped seeing the Lower Memory slot, Apple replaced the mother board and that repair was covered by 90 day repair warranty. It stopped seeing the lower slot in October 2008, and Apple replaced the mother board again and it worked until the end of December when the 3rd mother board would no longer read the lower slot. My daughter also has a friend with a same vintage 1.5 GHz 15" PowerBook G4, and her's is not reading the lower slot either.
The good news in our case is that after the 3rd failure Apple replaced her G4 with a new MacBook Pro. Other than this issue we had gotten good service out of that G4, and now have a brand new MacBook Pro.
There was a Service Extension Program for specific S/N G4s with this problem, but I think it is much wider spread than the S/N in that program.
We were very lucky to catch the problem while still under warranty, and to have each subsequent failure occur within the repair warranty period.
Note that my daughter's G4 was running Leopard when this started happening, but her friend is still running Tiger. I don't think the OS version has anything to do with this problem.
Message was edited by: gbullman

Help: Boot from Tiger partition

Some odd issues on PowerMac Quad running 10.5.1. Any help/advice gratefully received.
Two partitions on the primary drive: Alpha and Tiger-Boot. Alpha is the first partition and is the Leopard boot partition. Tiger-Boot is the second partition - 90Gb - and was cloned from the original Tiger 10.4.11 boot partition before Leopard.
1. SysPref. Startup drives listed as Alpha 10.5.1 and Tiger-Boot 10.4.11.
Choosing Tiger-Boot and restarting doesn't boot from Tiger-Boot but reverts to Alpha. ???
2. Startup holding down <Option> key. Internal Alpha and Tiger-Boot listed but Tiger-Boot cannot be chosen.
3. Startup holding down <Option> key. Internal Alpha and Tiger-Boot listed but not the external drive .... PowerMac refuses to recognize drive as a boot drive but an Intel Mac does. Test was using so this may be the issue here.
4. Decided to reboot from the Tiger Install DVD. Kernel Panic on the gray Apple logo screen just before the rotating spokes logo appears. Completely reproducible even after reseting PRAM (have to go into open Firmware to eject the DVD).
Any thoughts before I spend time on telephone w/Apple?
Thank you.

"...PowerMac refuses to recognize drive as a boot drive but an Intel Mac does..."
USB drive? PPC Macs cannot boot from USB drives regardless of the OS. Also, if the partition "scheme" is not correct, you might not be able to boot any Mac. A PPC Mac needs an "APM" partition and an Intel Mac needs a "GUID" partition. AFAIK, you cannot have both on the same drive.

Restoring the recovery partition

Hello,
We have recently puchased some Lenovo ThinkCentre E72 SFF, please tell us how we can restore the recovery partition on the HDD if we change or deleted this hidden drive. We created the USB recovery disk. The PC has windows 8 pro 64 bit OEM
Thank you

Sounds like you used the Microsoft Windows 8 tool to create a recover USB drive, and not the Lenovo process to create restore media. Lenovo has no bearing on this process, it is a Microsoft application.
Boot from the USB drive, and it will direct you how to restore. This HERE gives the steps needed.

How do I change the partition scheme to use GUID partition Table.

How do I change the partition scheme to use GUID partition Table so I can get Snow Leopard to download on my 10.5 disk.
When I insert the disk it asks me to select the disk where you want to install MAC OS X.It only give me one option the 10.5.
when I click on it it says...
"10.5" can't be used because it doesn't use the GUID Partition Table scheme.
Use Disk Utility to change the partition scheme. Select the disk, choose the Partition tab, select the Volume Scheme and then click Options.
I tried to do what it says and I can not find what it is saying. This is the info about my MacBook.
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.31f0
Thank you for your help!

The GUID partition option is one of three possible choices (click the "Options" button in the Partition") menu - be careful to have a full backup as changing the partition scheme will force an erasure on the disk. Take a look at this Apple support article for more complete information:
Firmware updates for Intel-based Macs require a GUID partition scheme - Apple Support
Ignore the stuff about firmware updates and just look at the changing GUID partition scheme.
Good luck - and don't forget about the full backup BEFORE making this sort of change.

Can I back up a bootable partition from an APM drive to a GUID-partitioned hard drive for storage, later to be able to clone restore the backup back to an APM and have it be bootable on a PowerPC?

Tongue twister of a question, huh?
I am creating a APM-partitioned hard drive for use with a PowerPC iMac G5, so I can have a fresh OS install on one as a reference, and the other be my usable OS. Now, I also want to back both of these partitions up on a storage hard drive that I also want to contain partitions that are bootable on an Intel mac (GUID). My question is, can I clone my APM partitions as backup to designated partitions on my GUID backup/storage hard drive (which I plan on being able to boot other partions on an Intel Mac), and have the option of later cloning the same APM partitions back to an APM-paritioned hard drive and have them still be bootable on a Power PC? I know I won't be able to boot a Power PC from off of the GUID-paritioned drive, but I want to be able to restore my APM-partitioned drive incase things go sour with it.
Thanks so much for your time, guys!

Block-level copier that copies not just the files but the filesystem structure as well. But files can be moved from GUID to APM partitioned devices without any effect on the file. The partition scheme affects whether an installed system will boot a particular type of hardware.
If you installed OS X on a GUID partitioned drive you would not be able to boot a PPC Mac.
And, you're most welcome.
Please note the items listed under Legend in the right sidebar of this page.

GUID Partition Scheme - Need clean install: can I restore files from TM?

So, here's my problem. I have an Intel PowerMac (first series after the G5) and when I try to install SL I get the following error message: "Can't Install Snow Leopard Since Disk Does Not Use GUID Partition Scheme". I guess it's something related to the fact thet I previously upgraded from an old iMac with a PPC processor (Apple partition vs. GUID partition).
Anyway, accoding to my understanding, the only solution for me is to do a clean install by wiping the HD and re-partitioning it.
Now, my question is: can I use my current TM backup to later restore apps/prefs onto the new SL system? I believe that TM now has an Apple partition scheme that reflects the one I have on Leopard 10.5. Is that right? Will I encounter any problem because of the different partition type of TM?

"Anyway, accoding to my understanding, the only solution for me is to do a clean install by wiping the HD and re-partitioning it."
Right, except that your drive will automatically be erased when you set up the GUID partitiion.
"Now, my question is: can I use my current TM backup to later restore apps/prefs onto the new SL system? I believe that TM now has an Apple partition scheme that reflects the one I have on Leopard 10.5. Is that right? Will I encounter any problem because of the different partition type of TM?"
Your TM backup should work. But, there are not many guarantees in life. You could tranfer you TM backup temporarily to your internal and then make a bootable clone of your internal on your external. Afterwards, you could transfer the TM backup back. Then, you'd have two sources from which you could restore items.
Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)

How to restore from Time Machine WITHOUT install discs using a second Mac

It's a question that is asked repeatedly all over the web by Mac users like me that bought in to Time Machine (TM) on the assumption that if their computer died one day it would be a piece of cake to restore from it, only for that day to come and then to be told "ahh, okay the first thing is to get your computers install discs..." (loud crashing sound of world falling around ears).
I've never been able to afford a new Mac and both of my machines were bought second-hand. Neither came with Leopard (both have Tiger and have been upgraded to Leopard via the net). This was never supposed to be a problem as I've been backing up with TM. However it appears that Tiger discs are as much use as an inflatable dart board when it comes to using TM. So I've been faced with the possibility of having to spend £130 (about two hundred Pres Sheets, Yankees) on the Leopard install discs just so that I can have the option of restoring from TM. Bonkers.
However after much nashing of teeth, a very long weekend learning all sorts of things about 'Target Mode', 'Single User Mode', 'Verbose Mode', 'Open Source 9' etc the following solution has worked without the need to go out and buy those over-priced discs...
What you will need:
1 broken Mac requiring restoration
1 second donor Mac running Leopard (or Snow Leopard so long as the broken Mac can run it)
1 firewire cable with the correct fitting at either end to attach both Macs together
1 Time Machine backup
Note: The following is for when you have given up trying to boot from your hard drive. In my case I couldn't boot in to Safe Mode etc. so was forced to format my drive and re-import everything. If you've read this far I'm assuming your at the same point as well and have tried everything else that's out there first.
Also - both my Macs are Power PC's so can't run Snow Leopard, so I can't say 100% this will work with SL (Intel) machines. From what I've read Snow Leopard will work with this procedure too, but if you've found differently please feel free to add your experiences below...
STEP ONE: Format the corrupt Hard Drive or replace with a fresh HDD
*Link the two computers with a firewire.
*If you're replacing your HDD, remove your corrupted hard drive from the 'broken' machine and insert a new one.
*Power up the broken Mac whilst holding down the 'T' key. This will start it up in Target Mode and you'll get a nice firewire symbol floating around that machine's screen.
*Power up the second 'healthy' Mac. This will be our 'donor' machine. When it starts up after a few seconds you will see the hard drive of the broken Mac appear on the donor Mac's desktop.
*Using your donor Mac's 'Disc Utility', format the broken Mac's hard drive (now's the time to partition it etc. if you want to).
STEP TWO: Clone your donor Mac
Your broken Mac is no longer broken and now needs a new OS. But you don't have the discs, right? Well get this... you can clone your donor mac on to your machine, even if they are totally different i.e. a laptop on to a tower.
*Again using Disc Utility, click on your donor Mac's hard drive. The restore tab appears as an option.
*Click on restore and drag the donor Mac's hard drive that contains the operating system in to the Source box.
*Drag the newly formatted hard drive on the broken Mac in to the Destination box.
*Click restore. Your donor Mac's hard drive will now be 'cloned' on to your no-longer-broken Mac. Once this is done, eject the first Mac's hard drive from your donor Mac's desktop. You no longer need the donor Mac.
Ta daa! Your machine now starts up happy and smily again. Time to restore all that stuff that's been sat on your Time Machine drive...
STEP 3: Restore from Time Machine using Migration Assistant
This is the really clever part that prompted me to write this piece in the first place. Time Machine IS accessible without those Leopard install discs you don't have. You need to use something called 'Migration Assistant'.
*Start up your machine as normal and you'll see it is an exact clone of the donor machine. Weird huh?
*Attach your Time Machine hard drive. It will show up as an icon on the desktop and because of it's size, you'll be asked if you want to use it as a Time Machine backup. Err, NO YOU DON'T! Click 'cancel'.
*Open Migration Assistant (if you can't find it just type it in to Finder and click). There are three options, the middle one being to restore from TM or another disc. Yup, you want that one.
*Migration Assistant will now ask you what you want to restore in stages, firstly User Accounts, then folders, Apps etc. It will even import internet settings
And that's you done. Let Migration Assistant do it's thang... altogether I had about 140gb to restore, so it wasn't exactly speedy. This wasn't helped by the fact that my TM hard drive is connected via USB (yes, I know). Just leave it alone and it'll whirr happily away...
Before I go - you don't have an option of when to restore from, and will restore from the last Time Machine save. At least then you should be able to access TM and go 'backwards' if you need to.
Also - for a Mac expert, the above will be up there with 'Spot Goes To The Farm' in terms of complexity. However, for the rest of us the above is only available in fragments all over the net. By far the most common response to 'how do I restore from Time Machine without install discs' is 'you can't'. If I'd found the above information in one place I could have saved a lot of hair pulling and swearing over the last couple of days, so forgive me for sharing this workaround with the rest of the world. Meanwhile your expertise will come in very handy for the inevitable questions that will get posted below, so please feel free to help those people that won't be sure if this solution is the right one for them. I'm no expert, I just want to help people that were stuck in the same situation (and looking at the web, there's a LOT of them).
Hope this is of use to someone, thanks and *good luck*!

Most maintenance and repair, restore and install procedures require the use
of the correct OS X install DVD; be it an original machine-specific restore/install
disc set or a later retail non-specific general install disc set.
By having an unsupported system, perhaps installed via an illegal download or
other file-sharing scheme, where no retail official discs are involved and the
initial upgrade was done by other means outside of the License Agreements,
you are asking us to discuss a matter of illegal installation and use of a product.
There are no legal complete OS X system download upgrades online; only bits
that are update segments to a retail or as-shipped machine's original OS X install.
+{Or an installation where a previous owner had correct retail upgrade discs, &+
+chose to not include them with the re-sale of the computer it was installed in.}+
However, to answer the initial question. To get and use an externally enclosed
hard drive in suitable boot-capable housing, and get a free-running Clone
Utility (download online; often a donation-ware product, runs free) you can
make a bootable backup of everything in your computer to an external HDD.
This is the way to make a complete backup to restore all functions to the computer.
The Time Machine has some limits, in that it can restore only that which it saves.
It does not make a bootable clone of your entire computer system with apps and
your files, to an external drive device. A clone can. And some of the clone utility's
settings can also backup changes to an external drive's system; if that other drive
is attached to the computer correctly.
Carbon Copy Cloner, from Bombich Software; and also SuperDuper, another of
the most known software names you can download and use to clone boot-capable
system backups of your computer's hard disk drive contents, are often cited.
However you resolve the matter of the running OS X system in your computer,
derived from what appears to be questionable means, is part of the initial issue.
Since you do need to be able to fix an existing installation by unmounting the
computer's hard disk drive and run the computer from the other (install disc or
system clone) while it is Unmounted; and use the correct Disk Utility version to
help diagnose and perhaps be able to fix it. You can't use a Tiger version Disk
Utility to fix a Leopard installation, and so on.
So, the situation and replies as far as they can go (since the matter does
constitute an illegal system, if it was arrived at without correct discs) is a
limited one. And file sharing of copied Mac OS X (and other) software is
also considered illegal.
And, one way to get odd malware and unusual stuff, is to get an unauthorized
system upgrade from an illegal source online. You never know what's inside it.
The other reply was not a personal attack; the matter is of legal status and as
you have a product with a questionable system, the answer is to correct it.
And if you want to save everything in your computer, make a clone to a suitable
externally enclosed self-powered boot capable hard disk drive. With older PPC
Macs, that would best be to one with FireWire and the Oxford-type control chips.
However that works out...
Good luck & happy computing!

Why is my GUID partitioned HD not booting from external firewire

Hello everyone,
I have a new 2TB WD EARS drive which I have Snow Leopard installed on. It was cloned from my 1TB WD drive which was running Snow Leopard perfectly beforehand. I have the 2TB HDD installed in a firewire400/800/USB/eSata enclosure and I cannot boot up from the HDD. It is GUID Partitioned as you can see from the Info below:
    Name :     WDC WD20 EARS-19MVWB0 Media
    Type :     Disk
    Partition Map Scheme :     GUID Partition Table
    Disk Identifier :     disk1
    Media Name :     WDC WD20 EARS-19MVWB0 Media
    Media Type :     Generic
    Connection Bus :     USB
    USB Serial Number :     000001D919A8
    Writable :     Yes
    Ejectable :     Yes
    Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed :     No
    Location :     External
    Total Capacity :     1.8 TB (2,000,398,934,016 Bytes)
    S.M.A.R.T. Status :     Not Supported
    Disk Number :     1
    Partition Number :     0
Name :     CREAZNMIND
    Type :     Volume
    Disk Identifier :     disk1s2
    Mount Point :     /Volumes/CREAZNMIND
    File System :     Mac OS Extended
    Connection Bus :     USB
    Writable :     Yes
    Universal Unique Identifier :     22415261-328A-3D43-80BC-241D1051E78C
    Capacity :     1.8 TB (2,000,054,956,032 Bytes)
    Free Space :     1.3 TB (1,393,188,286,464 Bytes)
    Used :     565.2 GB (606,866,669,568 Bytes)
    Number of Files :     851,286
    Number of Folders :     186,288
    Owners Enabled :     No
    Can Turn Owners Off :     Yes
    Can Be Formatted :     Yes
    Bootable :     Yes
    Supports Journaling :     Yes
    Journaled :     No
    Disk Number :     1
    Partition Number :     2
I am unable to boot in both firewire 400/800 and USB. What is confusing is that if another drive with a partition format for windows is installed the drive is recognized without a problem and mounts. I can see the HDD in Disk Utility but only the Disk itself is selectable but the partition is greyed out. The drive also cannot be checked or repaired in Disk Utility when connected with the firewire enclosure. I have tried this on two seperate apple computers, one even being an older PPC. Another thing that confuses me is that if I attached the HD to the computer using only a SATA/USB adapter cable, I can boot off the drive just fine. And when connected to a PPC the drive mounts seemlessly. I went into the shop where I purchased my enclosure and after some testing they said that it was because of the GPT Protection which is just GUI Partition Table. They said this is a somewhat common problem with Firewire enclosures and even LaCie reported this problem. Has anyone ever heard of this? Is there a problem between GUID and Firewire interfaces? If Intel Macs can only use GUID partitioning how can I get around this problem? I've looked around and it seems it's possible to install SL onto an APM drive by cloning from an Intel system, but why won't it just work the way it's supposed to? Any insights would be helpful....
Thanks in advance!

Journaled isn't a requirement for SL to boot. All I can suggest for the OP is to erase and repartition the HD; then, try again.

PPC Mac restore from GUID Partition on exterior HDD?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for