Recovered hard drive restore

The main internal hard drive on my Mac Pro had a mechanical failure and needed to be recovered. I have no time machine backup of the drive. The data recovery service recovered everything on the drive, thankfully. I have purchased a new internal drive and have copied everything from the recovered drive over. The copy of recovered information, despite being 100% intact is not recognized as a possible boot disk.
Is there an efficient way to restore from a hard drive clone without using time machine? Or do I have to manually re-copy everything into a re-install leopard?

It is becoming clear to me that the reasons that your suggestions are not working is because I have actually lost some data. Applications, for example are not all entirely there. It should be no surprise, then that migration assistant and OS installs have not been helpful.
I am left with the manual transfer option, and now I have some specific questions about a manual transfer in order to ensure I do things safely.
1) What are the pieces that I need to transfer to bring the applications over safely? Applications folder and Library folder - or are there others?
2) Can I manually copy the user folder over and expect that it will be present in the startup?
3) Trying to copy over the library folder left me with a permissions error. How to I get around the permissions issue? How do I invoke master admin (root) authority?
Thanks for all of your helpful advice. I appreciate the effort and I am certain this will be the last step.
Lauren

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I have no idea what "yodot" is (let me Google it...). OK, looks as if it's a file recovery utility for Windows. Not sure why you'd need that...
...are you saying that you're getting a message that your disk is full? Please provide further information... see How to help us help you on these forums.
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Recovering Hard Drive Space?

Hi all,
I was wondering if there's a way to recover hard drive space after emptying the trash?
My macbook tells me that I have 1.39Gb of free space, so I went around deleting some videos, and then empty the trash.
However, I checked how much free space I have left, it's still 1.39Gb after emptying the trash, and I'm sure I've deleted around 10Gb worth of videos.
However, I notice that if I log out and then log back in, I get the space back.
I was wondering if I could recover the hard drive space without actually logging out.
Thanks in advance~

Operating with such a small amount of free space is quite dangerous and can result in directory corruption. I recommend you start be repairing your hard drive and permissions:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Normally you need at least 10 GBs or 15% of the hard drive's capacity as free space whichever is greater. Too little free space is hazardous to your hard drive's health and will cause OS X to run slower. If you are running out of space then you need a larger hard drive.

How do I restore data from recovered hard drive?

In a nutshell-
Hard drive failed. We had it replaced, and recovered data from old hard drive, put it on an external hard drive. Now we want to put that data onto the new hard drive.
Is it as simple as dragging it over?
We're missing most of the software that came with our computer when we first bought it. We can't find the software installation disk, but we do see application icons from the recovered data. We do have the Software disk from a Mac mini. Can we use this disk? It seems like there has to be a way to get the software we had before the crash without paying to have it done.
I thank you, in advance.

You cannot use the discs from a Mac Mini--you have to have the exact discs for your iBook G4. These discs are very machine specific.
That said, you can try bringing over the various applications from your external drive. The only potential problem is that because the old drive failed, there could be some software corruption.
If you can locate your original discs and install the software from them, that would be ideal. If you can't, you can get replacement discs from Apple for a fee.
As for the data, you should be able to just drag it over.
Good luck!

Is there a way to recover hard drive data after backing up via Time Machine (from Time Capsule)?

iMac 27", Mid 2011
2.7GHz Intel Core i5
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63b)
Apple Time Capsule (May 2012)
Greetings,
Is there a way to recover the most recent version of your hard drive, after you installed an earlier version. I accidentally restored to an earlier version of my Mac Book lap top and installed it on my iMac desk top. I installed the earlier version using an Apple Time Machine and Apple Time Capsule.
I see some recovery software online, but I'm not sure if I should buy one or if there's another way to approach this problem.
The restored version has some of my files, but it's 2 full years old!
Am I dead in the water?
I appreciate any advice you can offer on alternative recovery techniques or recovery software recommendations.
Sincerely,
Chuck "dying over here" B.

Hey R,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Unfortunately the whole time I thought the TM/TC was backing up correctly as the thing was starting and stopping as if everything was fine. I guess I was blinded by the little green light that was always on. So actually it does not have a recent version of my iMac, - it only lists old 2011 and 2012 versions of my Macbook. I suppose I screwed something up at setup, and as it was hard lined (via a T5 cable) into my iMac, and the Macbook was shut down in a drawer, I never realized the error.
The restored version is less than a Gig, so there's plenty of room left on the iMac (1TB HD). As such, I'm hoping that most of the files have not really been overwritten.
I'm willing to pay to have it professionally recovered, but is that even possible?
C

What command to use in command prompt inside HP Recovery Manager to recover hard drive?

Hi,
I'm trying to use HP's Recovery Manager to restore my hard drive to the original factory settings. When going into Recovery Manager via "F11" during computer startup, all of the options are greyed out except, "Run Computer Checkup." Inside that option, all options are greyed-out except, "Open a command prompt."
Once I open a command prompt, the window title is "Administrator: X:\Windows\system32\Cmd.exe" and the command line in the window is "X:\Windows\RM\>"
I have no idea what command to enter here to recover the hard drive! What command should I use???
Why are all the normal options in Recovery Manager greyed out?
Background: I dropped my laptop and afterwards the computer will power on but not boot up from the hard drive - it says there is a hard drive error. I have been able to recover most/many files from the harddrive by taking it out and connecting it to another computer and using a recovery software program. I am not sure if the hard drive is physically/irreparably damaged, but it does spin and I have recovered many files from it. Now ready to recover it back to original state and then reload my recovered files.
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There isn't a command that I am aware of to use at the command prompt that will recover your computer. If you dropped your computer, it is likely that the hard drive suffered physical damage. Please see HP Notebook PCs - Testing for Hardware Failures (Windows 7, Vista) for instructions on testing the hard drive. It is also possible that the HP Recovery partition was damaged and you may need to use the HP Recovery Media you created when you first setup your computer
If you didn't create this media, please contact official HP Customer Support in your region / country, via the HP Worldwide Support Portal, to see if HP Recovery Media is available for your computer. Software may not be covered by the warranty and there may be a charge for the HP Recovery Media.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
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Hard drive restore- issue

I had to restore my hard drive (mac) and reloaded from a Backup (yeah!) but Adobe requires that I
Uninstall(done), run a Cleanup (done) and reinstall from a new downloaded DMG file. (why can't this be easier?)
Upon trying to start the install I get " Install App can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer"
So, now I have nothing. How do I install? This was a Web Purchase in 2011 so I do not still have that DMG file.
Please advise.
Pat

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I need help recovering hard-drive space...

I was doing a 35-pass-erase on my Macbook Pro for a "clean" install of Snow Leopard. Everything was fine and dandy until I noticed that I only had 216 GB after the installation. My Macbook Pro is a 250 GB model. I know the OS and iLife applications take up space, but 34 GB? Really?
I'm thinking that my install wasn't so "clean" after all. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong and what I can do to recover some GB?

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
Don't forget that the stated capacity is more than you get in reality. For example. my Powerbook has a 160GB drive that shows the capacity as 148.93GB. What does OS X say the capacity of the hard drive is? When you take that into account, you may find that the operating system install is a more reasonable size.
One thing you can do to reduce the operating system footprint is to run Monolingual, to remove languages you'll never use. Download from http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ . If you use it, take it slowly, and don't delete English!

Need Help Recovering Hard Drive Space on Disk Utility

I recently wanted to resize my Boot Camp hard drive partition as I did not need it to be 194 gb. In the process I screwed something up and now that space that was once my Boot Camp Partition is now "free space." My Mac Partition still says that I have 305 gb left and I am unsure how to expand this partition to get back that "grey" space. I've tried using Boot Camp Assistant, starting with Command+R after the "chime," and restoring my OSX (not completely however).
I need help in getting back this missing space. It seems that I have looked everywhere and although people seem to have a similar issue I can't figure it out.
Would restoring Mountain Lion completely by using a USB jump drive solve this problem? I have an external hard drive that uses Time Machine to back up my MacBook so a complete restore shouldn't be an issue.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
P.S. This is what my disk utility currently looks like...

You can try to use Boot Camp Assistant to completely remove the Windows partition but it might not work.
Simple fact is once you setup a Windows partition you can't fool with it at all, that is unless you use some add on program specifically designed to do that on a Mac computer. If you need to resize the Windows partition you first need to use BCA and remove the partition completely and then recreate it at the new size you want and reinstall Windows.
You might have to use Time Machine and backup your Mac partition then repartition the complete drive and then restore from that Time Machine backup. Then setup the Windows partition and reinstall Windows.

Since hard drive restore, backup gives Disk Repair, Read-only errors

Hi all -
After a hard drive crash last week, I restored the new HD using my historically reliable wireless Time Capsule (TC) with Time Machine (TM). But ever since, backups have ceased to work. Now, TM spins for about an hour before returning the following errors in sequence:
(1) DISK REPAIR: "The disk 'Backup of [my name] Macbook' was not repairable by this computer. It is being made available to you with limited functionality. You must back up your data and reformat the disk as soon as possible."
(2) TIME MACHINE ERROR: The backup volume is read only. To select a different volume, open System Preferences and choose Time Machine."
I very much doubt there is an actual problem with the TC disk itself; my wife's iBook G4 continues to backup to it without any problem whatsoever. Related threads have suggested:
a) doing clever things with Preferences, such as deleting the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file and re-booting. However, for some reason (perhaps related to the source of the problem?) I have no such file...
b) using Disk Utility to re-format and/or re-partition (these terms mean little to me) the TC disk. But my Disk Utility doesn't see the TC. (Perhaps related, I no longer actually see the little backup disk icon on the desktop.) And as I've said, I doubt very much it's the TC disk itself that it is the problem.
I have of course tried re-booting everything, as well as un-mounting and re-mounting the TC: Computer, heal thyself! No luck.
Any guidance is appreciated...
(PS If there's a log file I should post that might help with diagnostics, just let me know where to find it.)

I have suffered the same error messages, but without a hard disk crash before it.
I copied the backup-file from the TC to a separate drive, erased the TC, re-installed it, copied the backup-file to the TC en re-initiated TM only to be welcomed with the 'The backup volume is read only'-message again.
Beats me why this happened. Most frustrating part, however, is that I am not able to restore from the backup-file. Any suggestions are highly appreciated!

Upgrade MacBook Hard Drive - Restore System from Time Machine Backup?

I have a MacBook that I want to upgrade the hard drive of. Am I right in thinking, all I need to do is:
Run Time Machine one last time, to make a recent backup of the MacBook
Install the new hard drive in the MacBook
Insert the Snow Leopard DVD, and start a clean installation
During installation, select the option to Restore System From Backup...
Will this copy across ALL of the contents of the old MacBook's hard drive, to the new MacBook's hard drive? A perfect clone? Because that's what I want to do.

I performed the installation, restoring a Time Machine backup from the external hard drive to the new blank internal one I put inside the MacBook. Everything went fine, except for one problem.
Now, whenever I try to open Safari, it immediately crashes with the error message:
"Safari quit unexpectedly
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)"
What's going on? How can I stop Safari from doing this? I've repaired permissions using Disk Utility, and Spotlight has finished re-indexing everything.

New hard drive - restore vs. transfer from time machine

The hard drive in my MacBook went bad and the shop was unable to salvage any of the data. They installed a new hard drive and installed OS 10.5 from the disk I had.
I have a backup on my TimeMachine device that is probably 2 weeks old and want to restore from that. I was instructed to boot up my MacBook with the TM connected and then do a restore. However, when I do this, I am prompted with a welcome, I pick my language and then it asks me if I want to TRANSFER from a device. I am not given the opportunity to get to the Utilities menu, from which I could do a restore.
From reading the various posts, it appears that you can get to the Utilities menu if you boot up from the Leopard DVD, but I have an OS installed on my drive already.
My question is, if I do a "Transfer", as it's being presented to me, will that result in the same state as that of a "restore" from the utilities menu? If not, should I put in the DVD and boot up from that, even though I've got it installed on my hard drive already?
Thanks,
Melba

Yes, tell it you want to Transfer from a Time Machine disk. The word "transfer" can be a bit confusing but it is what you want.
What you're seeing is essentially the same thing the "Migration Assistant" does (which is in the Utilities folder). Migration Assistant was originally created to let Mac users just "move in" to a new Mac if they buy a new machine. It connects to the "old" machine, finds all the applications, user accounts, and a few other things, and then copies them over to the new machine so that everything is all set up and ready for you to go.
When they invited Time Machine, they implemented a restore by putting it into the same Migration Assistant. It sees the latest backup on the Time Machine pretty much exactly as if it were looking at the hard drive of another Mac and it's transferring all the info over to your new hard drive.
Both methods would restore your applications, and ultimately even all your user data. But the advantage of doing it now (vs. letting it finish booting the system and doing it later) is that if you tell it you want to do it later, it'll end up prompting you for your name, etc. and building a user account for you. Then when you try to do a restore via Migration Assistant later (to restore you apps & data) it will complain that an account under that name already exists and to pick another name.
If you just let it run the migration now it will create your user account exactly as it was from the last backup.

Install new hard drive, restore from Time Machine, File Vault Problems

Hello all,
I spent way too much time on this seemingly simple task, so I thought I would share my experience with others so they can avoid some pitfalls when upgrading a hard drive in a system that uses File Vault 2 encryption. The basic goal here is to replace a drive in a system that has only one drive, and the OS is Mavericks, and then have the new drive encrypted as before.
The problem is that a Time Machine restore onto a new drive will leave that without a Recovery Partition, which is required for File Vault 2 and some other important things. So we need to build a recovery partition. There are possibly several ways to do this.
Here's what worked for me (this is compiled from many sources that I found and already closed the tabs in my browser so I can't list all my sources):
1) Make a full backup to an external hard drive using Time Machine.
2) Go into the App Store and download OS X Mavericks but dont install it (close the window when it pops up asking to continue the install). Do this even if you already have Mavericks. At this point, there will be a folder in your Applications folder called Install OS X Mavericks (or similar).
3) Insert a USB drive that is at least 8 GB and format it using Disk Utility, naming it the default "Untitled".
4) Open a terminal and type
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
5) Wait for this to finish (took me about 30 min). Eject the USB drive and power down.
6) Remove the old hard drive and set it aside. Keep it for a few weeks until you know the new drive is working as expected.
7) Install the new hard drive and insert the USB drive. Hold the option key and press the power button. Choose to boot from the USB installer.
8) Use the disk utility to erase whatever partition shipped with the new drive, replacing it with a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) system. Verify that GUID is the partition type (in Advanced options).
9) Close the disk utility and install Mavericks. This can take a long time. My new drive is an SSD, and it sat at the "1 second remaining" part for about 20 min. Let it reboot (maybe it was 2 times?) and go through the setup until it finishes the install.
10) Boot into the freshly installed OS and open a terminal and type:
diskutil list
11) If there is a partition listed as Apple_Boot Recovery HD (mine was 650 MB), then you now have a recovery partition. If not, then go into the App store and download Mavericks, but don't use the USB this time, choose to do a regular install (or reinstall to be more correct).
12) Now there will be a recovery partition on the new drive and Time Machine will not overwrite it when restoring. Power down the system.
13) Plug in the Time Machine backup drive used in step 1. Press the option key and power on. Choose to boot from the recovery partiton (Mavericks).
14) Choose to restore from Time Machine backup. Wait until it finishes and log into the old familiar account.
15) Start a terminal and verify the recovery partition is still there (type diskutil list and see that the Apple_Boot Recovery HD is there). If it's missing, choose to download Mavericks from the App Store again and run the installation from this one.
16) Once there is a Mavericks recovery partition on the restored data you can simply turn on File Vault from the System Preferences Security section. It will require a reboot and then you login and wait for it to finish.
What a major pain to go through all of this for the sake of upgrading a hard drive. This should not be anywhere near as complicated. I hope this helps others avoid the very time consuming trial and error I went through in developing this procedure.

Talked with Apple last night. Everything we did to restore lost images failed to fix the issue. I did have the images still on my camera's SD card so I was not breaking out in a cold sweat.
All Time Machine backups showed the same issue. HOWEVER, I suddenly remembered I also had a SuperDuper backup and voila. The images were there.
Moral of the story: you can't ever be too rich or have too many backups (I also have an offsite backup).

Syncing iPhone to iMac after hard drive restore

My hard drive died very s l o w l y over the last couple of weeks.
I was very careful during this time not to delete any data from the phone (for example, I imported pictures to iPhoto, but did not delete them from the phone) as I just didn't feel terribly confident about my hardware.
I was beginning to feel a little better about things the night before the hard drive finally died (everyone had been saying, it's software it's software it's software), so one of the things I did was buy an album on iTunes after doing a full backup to Time Machine (I'd erased and restored my system the day before, so TM wanted to do a complete backup). I wanted to see if TM would pick up the incremental change. I also synced my iPhone after doing this and it updated the iOS, synced a few notes I'd made.
Then, hard drive dies, is replaced, and for a number of reasons, I opted to restore my data from a backup that I'd taken and archived before things started behaving so erratically. This means that I have some data on my iPhone - notes, that one album (my Purchased playlist syncs to my phone), iOS, which is newer than what the iTunes that I restored can recall - it seems to have a profile for my phone from late June, the last sync it remembers.
I'm just wondering a couple of things:
Am I in for some kind of almighty weird surprise when I plug my phone into my computer? Am I going to be presented with all kinds of options for erasing my phone, or worse, effing up my iTunes? Am I correct in thinking I should let my first TM backup of THIS hard drive complete before I attempt this?
Will I be pleasantly surprised to find that it will just move that one album to my iTunes? If it doesn't, is there any way I can move it manually from my phone to my iTunes? I wrote to iTunes Store customer support to ask if they could make the album available for download again, and it's been more than 24 hours and no response - not sure if they don't like my question.
Am I just worrying unnecessarily?

I went ahead and and changed the music file location, consolidated the library. That went ok. Tried a test adding an artist's folder from the external drive that I know had a new album in it but just a few other albums. Ended up with duplicate entries for the previously existing albums. Bah! I think I have 3 choices here: 1) add all the new stuff to the itunes library manually (but remember there have been hundreds of changes since January..the music files are > 80 gb total. 2) add to library selecting the main folder (which appears that it will then add thousands of duplicate items to the database list in addition to the hundreds of new items). 3) forget about trying to preserve ratings/playcounts etc and wipe the database and rebuild it from the external drive.
Is there a way to rebuild the database and preserve the existing ratings/playcounts?

New hard drive, restored with time capsule -- safari won't open

Just successfuly replaced my crashed 500gb hard drive with a 2TB drive. Used time capsule to restore the system (what a godsend), but now programs on the computer arent working. I tunes opens, then crashes, the app store just bounces down in the application bar for a while then stops, safari opens 80% of a page and then the window crashes and goes away. I get a feeling it has something to do with my recent repairs, but what? Any help would be appreciated. this is very frustrating.
Original system is a white intel iMac 500GB 20 inch screen EMC# 2018.

ok, sorry for being new at this, but I just tried "repair disk" and have an almost infinite array of permissions errors....so many that it crashes when doing the repair. Is this a problem with the drive itself, or the fact that i restored an entire system onto a new drive? Either way, is it fixable?

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