Restore BOOTCAMP from .dmg image - Unable to scan (invalid argument)

I'm having trouble getting my maching back in order after a crash. I'm running a MacBook Pro 13" mid-2009 with a Bootcamp partition. Last week my harddrive crashed or something and I wasn't able to boot into either drive. Using the Snow Leopard install DVD and Disk Utility I made .dmgs of the entire HD and each of the partitions (Mac HD and Bootcamp - maybe overkill but..). I have since been able to restore my Mac side from the image, even without installing OSX - I just restored from the image using Disk Util again and everything seems to work fine. But, now I've been trying to do the same thing with my Bootcamp side - I have a separate .dmg for that. Everything seems to go fine except that when I try to restore it tells me the image needs to be scanned and when I scan I get the error message: "Unable to scan BOOTCAMP.dmg (invalid argument)". I've tried using different schemes of compression/ no compression on the image, tried to convert to a .cdr then rename to .iso and restore using Windows' native Recovery option. I even tried Terminal - sudo asr restore -noverify -source _________ -target __________ , but it wouldn't let me drag and drop in the Bootcamp drive icon...
Now I don't know what to do but ask.
Has anyone solved this problem????

Hi, and thanks for your reply.
Is there anyway I can convert my .dmg or .cdr/.iso to something that winclone can use?
ps I did finally get Disk Utility to scan the image. I had to convert it to a compressed .dmg from the uncompressed one and it finished it fine but still in Restore in Disk Util. I can't set the destination as my bootcamp partition.
Looks like I'll have to reinstall everything then eh? Well thanks for your help.

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Here's what i did:
1. I made images of HDD and and partition. To make images smaller i previously copied all of my multimedia files to PC. Images were created as read only, not compressed. They were stored on PC
2. I have used disc utility after booting up from MacOS X CD, and made a new partition. It's name is the same as the one i made image from.
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Is the only solution to connect a firewire hard drive to my mac with images on it? Or it is a problem with my images (making image process didn't showed any errors with HDD image and partition image).
Moreover i cant access those images on my MBP cos it's says that there are no mountable file system. Does it means that this image is bad?
Please help, I'm running out of options as i don't have firewire HDD and i'm really annoyed cos things like defragmentation are so easy on Windows and i don't get it why it's must be so complicated on Mac
Sincerely
PS sorry for my english
Message was edited by: pazera

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An image of your hard drive? No. A copy of Tiger DVD?
It could be done under Panther with a program called BootCD, but not Tiger.
Why? when you can easily clone your system to a FW drive partition and use that as needed. Or use TechTool Pro 4.5.1 to put an "eDrive" on your boot drive or another drive (~7GB) just for emergencies.
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Hi people,
I was wandering if anyone could help me with this little thing. I hate Time Machine, so that's not a viable solution for my inquiry. What I want to do is migrate my whole SL system from my old MacBook to my new one. Is it possible to create a Disk Image of my old MacBook's Hard Drive with Disk Utility or any other software and then restore SL from it in my new one?
*I know many of you may think TM is great, but I don't like it, so PLEASE spare me from lectures on why I should use it. I know I sound harsh, but every time I post something like this ten out of every eleven responses are about that.
*PLEASE, I BEG you, don't inquire upon why I want to do it this way. Again, I sound mean, but most of the responses I get are usually a pile of uselessness that just takes up space and doesn't help.
Thanks a lot for your time,
ThePhazonMonkey

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In the first place, there is no guarantee that the OS version on an older Mac will have all the files needed to support the newest ones, so all you may get for your efforts is a new Mac that won't boot at all or kernel panics soon afterwards.
In the second, there is no guarantee that all the user & system settings from one Mac will be compatible with those of another. The OS will do its best to compensate for this, for instance by using defaults when the other Mac's settings are invalid or incompatible, but the process is not foolproof & you may experience instabilities or unexpected behavior that will be hard to track down & remedy.
Do as Thomas suggests & use Migration Assistant, or better yet use Setup Assistant on the first startup of a new Mac to avoid any problems with duplicate user account names. (You cannot merge two existing user accounts with any automated software because each has its own set of home folder items that will conflict with the other's, so you must manually choose which ones to use with the account you want to keep.)

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I have just restored three OS partitions from backups made by Drive Image 7. My problem is that one of them failed to boot, and the follwing error messages were returned:
Broadcom UNDI PXE-2.1(Build 082) v6.2.11
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Copyright(c) 1997-2000 Intel Corp
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Originally posted by Jocko
Glad it worked this time, looks like a corrupted file header. If the OS can't find the nominated boot disk, it goes to next in list, and Network Boot is in there, so if it did not find boot.ini, it searched for it in network boot, which usually does not exist, so it throws an error. This often happens in boot info gets damaged or altered, then its FIXMBR to restore it.
Cheers
jocko
I am very interested in the above and would like to understand fully what it means.
I think I am knowledgeable about OS boot process but failed to relate it to your above response.
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Your answer to my general question above may surfice instead.
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• 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
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My Mac Mini was getting the blinking folder with the question mark. I tried to do a Disk Repair through Disk Utility, but I received tree node errors. I did a backup of my hard drive through Disk Utility, and saved the new Disk Image file (.dmg) to an external hard drive and completely wiped out my mac mini and reinstalled the Apple operating system so that I could access my computer. When I go to Disk Utility to restore from my backup, I am unable to drag my hard drive into the 'destination' field. I am however, able to drag the backup .dmg file into the 'source' field.
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                  40               409600            1         GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
          409640         623531456            2         GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
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    625211392         346185728            4         GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
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    976773167                         1                       Sec GPT header
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Signature: 0xAA55
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#: id        cyl hd   sec   -    cyl    hd   sec   [             start -                size]
1: EE   1023 254   63 - 1023 254    63   [                  1 -          409639]   <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023   254   63 - 1023 254    63   [        409640 -    623531456]   HFS+
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The screen grab is below.
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Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider. You may have to leave the machine there for several days.
Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional—ask if you need guidance.
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Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
Apple also recommends that you deauthorize a device in the iTunes Store before having it serviced.
*An SSD doesn't need to be zeroed.

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Thanks for a quick reply <baltwo>. You’ve answered that it is not a fake message!
fyi: I thought that I would use my external Buffalo for two purposes; namely the smaller ExFAT partition for copying stuff to my win7 netbook. The larger partition was to be used as my imac image of SL. So this was my first attempt at using disk utility - the idea being to hold an image backup at another location. Plus I now have the Lion thumbdrive ready to upgrade from SL and so being cautious wanted to have a SL image backup
Anyway I followed the apple instructions using my mac 10.6.3 install DVD but it would appear from other discussions that <unable to scan (internal error)> is not unique to me.
I’ll get back to apple telephone support for further advice.
I would though be grateful for an “idiots’ guide to making an image backup of my internal HD that runs SL 10.6.8
eg should I have just one partition on the external USB drive? format it as Mac OS extended? create the image as compressed or read/write? Basically I’ll do whatever will work!!
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Checksumming (Linux_Ext2FS : 3)…
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Hi,
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I have a early 2011 macbook pro and the internal hard drive failed. I installed OS X mavericks on an external hard drive (1) and I boot from the external drive (1). On a different external hard drive (2), I have a disk image of my macintosh HD (the computer's original hard drive with all my data on it) How do I go about restoring from the disk image on the external drive(2) to external hard drive (1)?
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