Restoring a damaged drive from Time Machine
My sister in law recently had an external drive with her iPhoto library on it go bad. The drive was backed up in Time Machine, but since the drive no longer mounts, it will not show up when you open Time Machine. How can you locate the backup for the bad drive, and put the iPhoto library on the computer's drive.
If the drive won't mount at all, you won't be able to do that, but there may be ways to get the drive to mount and recover the information.
First of all, open Disk Utility, select the disk in the sidebar and try the 'Mount' button. If the disk mounts, open a Finder window, and navigate to the latest back up through the Finder directory tree from Backups.backupdb > to your Pictures folder and the iPhoto Library. Copy the library to a known good disk.
If it won't mount, try repairing the disk in Disk Utility > First Aid tab. After the repair completes, try to mount it again and see if it shows in Finder.
If none of the above works, you may need to invest in a professional data recovery or disk repair program like Disk Warrior, Data Rescue or Drive Genius.
For the money, I'd probably suggest Disk Warrior as offering the best combination of repair and recovery features, but you won't find any of them cheap, I'm afraid and there's no guarantee of success with any one or even all three of them. Much depends on how far gone your disk really is.
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HT1553 I restored my hard drive from time machine. Why is iPhoto not displaying images properly?
I restored my hard drive from time machine after power blinks corrupted the file system so badly that disk utility could not repair it. Since then, iPhoto has not displayed images correctly. Events are there, and blank squares are shown, but that's all. I rebuilt small and all thumbnails and permissions -- I think the top three or four options in the iPhoto rebuild utility, which took five hours to do but which seems not to have changed anything. The iPhoto library is still more than 100GB, so the photos are there. I didn't choose rebuild from backed up --- whatever the final option on the rebuild menu offers -- because that seems to be appropriate only when a backup is interrupted. Could certainly do it, though. How do I get iphoto behaving again? I have full time machine backups saved automatically and another fairly recent copy on a separate hard drive stored remotely. Thanks for whatever help anyone can provide. I've looked at existing questions and solutions without success so far.
What version of iPhoto and system are your running? Since you've tried rebuilding with iPhoto give this a try:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments. However, books, calendars, cards and slideshows will be lost. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
If you have an external HD you might want to have the rebuilt copy created on it unless you have well more than 100 GB available on your boot drive.
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How to restore the Main Drive from Time Machine after replacement
I have a Late 2008 PowerBook Pro. I have a 2TB external drive for Time Machine.
I replaced the main drive with a 1 TB drive and thought that i could restore from the Time Machine. I have another external drive that has an earlier OS on it. It lets me select the time machine drive but doesn't allow me to restore the main drive.
I must be missing something because this is exactly why there is a Time Machine.
Can anybody give me some hints?
Thank you so much
RudolfYou need to use online recovery to re-install an OS X on the hard drive;
the utilities to correctly format the hard drive may be accessed there.
Ideally, you'd have a working copy (clone) to then be able to re-clone
into a prepared hard drive, for an off-line complete restore to new HDD.
There are details, right now I'm not able to go into them.
•OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
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Why does restoring a Hard Drive from Time Machine break all my software registration?
I've just upgraded the hard drive in my MacBook Pro using a Time Machine backup. (In the past I've used Carbon Copy cloner to duplicate the drive before installing it, but this seemed like an easier option.) The restore from TM went fine... but now all my apps are acting as if I've just installed them for the first time. Mail and Dropbox went thru their first time startup screens, and are reimporting all my files/messages. Word and Photoshop are asking for the registration serial numbers. What a hassle!
Does anyone know what Time Machine is doing, and why? Why aren't my apps fully restored? And is there any workaround?I imagine it is because of the way CCC does makes an exact clone of your drive.
Time Machine restores the drive file-by-file and doesn't necessarily restore support files. Most apps know when they've been moved and ask for serial numbers.
However, I have never restored a complete hard drive with Time Machine, so I don't know exactly what to expect.
Pondini may have some info here: http://pondini.org/TM/14.html -
Help Restoring New Hard Drive from Time Machine
To replace a failing Macintosh HD, I created an OS X Mountain Lion boot disk on a flash drive, put my new hard drive in a USB external dock, booted to the flash drive, partitioned and formatted the new drive (selecting GUID partition), and have tried and failed three times to restore from Time Machine, which is on a Firewire-connected drive. The error I get is that it's unable to create a restore disk.
I could reformat the new drive and try again, but is there something else I'm missing? For example, should I have left the new drive in the external dock, or should I move it to bay 1 and then try to restore, considering that latency is a possible issue or that Time Machine won't restore to a USB drive?Why don't you install ML on it and then see?
Better yet use any of the 4 internal drive bays instead of USB - slow and terrrible place!
It does not matter where or what drive bay.
Unable to unmount drive.
CLONE your system - a couple times, pure Apple Mac OS once you have one and later for working copy and one before you install or apply updates or programs or otehr changes.
CCC carbon copy cloner - will create recovery partition when you clone a system.
I assume your flash drive works, not everyone is successful first shot.
I prefer a clean install to start with. Esp as you say your system was failing I don't like relying on the Time Machine for everything. -
Can't restore new hard drive from time machine back up
Looking for some help on this one....
Briefly: iMac 24" aluminium early 2008 (model 2134) trying to upgrade the original 320 gb HDD. So I bought a WD Caviar Black 64 mb, 6gb/s 1Tb drive, intalled it pretty smoothly and then using an install disc restored it from a time machine back up. That went fine then I could not restart the mac (kernel panic). So i trouble shooted with an extended hardware test, disk repair and everything seemed fine. I reinstalled my old HDD again and worked perfectly so I figured my iMac doesn't like this Caviar (due to sata3 perhaps??) so I went and bought a Seagate barracuda sata2 1 TB 7200 rpm and repated the whole process. Again everything went super smooth until the restoring process ended and the iMac was restarted. Kernel panic again. Already tried PRAM, option key. Booting from the CD or my old drive is not a problem at all but from the newly installed drive (x2) ... Impossible
Any thoughts ???
ThanksBooting from the CD or my old drive is not a problem at all but from the newly installed drive (x2) ... Impossible
Disconnect all peripherals from your computer except for the keyboard and mouse. Double check to make sure that you installed the hard drive correctly - http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Browse/iMac#SectioniMac_Num20
Select your imac then select hard drive replacement, and there are the instructions.
Video instructions - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzuBW3mu7LI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVzYXgUhygI -
How to restore a new drive from Time Machine.
I am upgrading the HDD in a 13-inch uni-body MacBook Pro on Leporad. I've completed the latest time machine back up to the external and replaced the drive. How do I get the system to boot from the external. Is the boot disc required or is there another way?
You nedd the Install Disc 1st.
How to format your disks...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html
(To Install OSX on an IntelMac the Drive it needs the GUID Partitioning scheme mentioned at the bottom.)
Thanks to Pondini, Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks...
http://Pondini.org/OSX/DU.html -
Can I restore Yosemite Public beta from Time Machine with Mavericks bootable recovery drive
I had Yosemite beta running on an SSD in my Mac Book Pro. This drive has failed and is no longer recognized. I do have a Time Machine backup of this drive. When I restored it to a new SSD it would not boot.(formatted to MAC OS Extended (Journaled) with a single GUID partition) I do not have a Yosemite recovery drive. My question is, can I boot to the SSD using the Mavericks recovery USB drive and do a full restore of my Yosemite drive from Time Machine? I am unable to re-download the Yosemite beta as my code has already been redeemed.
Yes, this did work. I booted to the Mavericks recovery drive and pulled the backup off of Time Capsule and resolved the issue.
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Need to wipe hard drive to restore to previous date from time machine back up. Unclear how to do this. Please advise or provide link to this procedure on website. Thanks.
See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.
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First sync after restoring hard drive from Time Machine
So, the internal on my iMac went down. Had a new drive installed and restored the whole computer from Time Machine. Prior to the crash, I had my iPhone set in iTunes to sync with an iPhoto album, so I just drag any photos on I want on my phone to that album and sync. Either way, now I'm getting the "iPhone is synced to another photo library...do you want to replace all existing photos and albums on your phone with those from your photo library". This is scary. Any ideas on whether or not this will actually wipe any photos off of my iPhone (especially those taken using the iPhone camera?). I appreciate any help. Thanks.
Because you have a new drive on the computer, it does not recognize the phone. When you go to sync, if you have all of the same information on your computer, it will erase everything on the phone, however it will then replace it all again. When the phone syncs, it places a hidden backup file in folders it syncs to in order to "remember" that is synced it.
As far as pictures taken with the iPhone camera, those are stored in the camera roll, and that has nothing to do with the photo library, which is where photos that you sync from the computer are at. However, if you do have photos in the camera roll, I suggest that you import them to the comptuer as soon as possible, like you would any digital camera. The iPhone is not a storage device, and if something were to happen to the iPhone and you had to restore as new, you would lose those photos. -
Restore one hard disk from Time Machine backup
Is it possible to restore only one disk from Time machine backup? I have a SSD with OSX 10.8.5 on it while user folders are on a separate 4TB hard drive. I also have a Time Machine volume for backups. Yesterday the user drive failed beyond repair, but fortunatly I do have a recent backup. When I tried to resotre following insructions provided in the Time Machine manual, it does not give me an option to resore a specific disk from the backup, and tries to resotre only the System disk backup, in this case the SSD. Is there a way to restore a disk on which no system is installed?
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How can I restore Parental Control Settings from Time Machine Backup?
I was trying to adjust one of the parental controlled accounts for my child. I disabled parental controls, rebooted, and re-enabled it. Now all the settings that I had setup before are gone. How can I restore Parental Control Settings from Time Machine Backup?
Hi ...
I've found a solution to my problem.
Time Machine locates extenal HDD backups differently depending if they were done via a network or via a USB/FireWire/Thunderbolt connection.
My initial backup was done via a direct Thunderbolt connection. I ran into the above issue b/c the second time when I tried looking for the backup file the HDD was conencted to my iMac and I was accessing it via a network conenction.
I simply connected the drive directly to my MacBook pro and ... voila. I was able to see the backup, select the iPhoto library and begin the restore.
Hope this helps.
BTW - I found this out by reading the 'blue box' selection on this page: http://pondini.org/TM/E2.html
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i have reinstalled snow leopard 10.6.8, and want to restore my i photos from time machine. Can not find i-photo libary in time machine, can't not find > home-pict. iphoto lib. in time machine. Please help.
On my HD it does not say ,restore, in yourname -pict. Iphoto lib.,
On the time machine, it , yourname etc, oes not show up at all.
Only right side of TM, your name etc. does not show. -
I restored my hard drive with time machine but when I log in I get "home folder protected by fire vault and needs to be repaired. But I can't get past the regular log
Maybe you might find some info to the right>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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I reinstalled my system on a new hard drive, from time machine. However my old photos seem corrupt within aperture. iphoto seems okay. New photos take a long time to load as well.
Have you heard of this?
ThanksWe need a little more information to be able to help.
However my old photos seem corrupt within aperture.
What kind of corruption? And when do you see it? All your images, or only some? Are the images distorted, discolored, or not displayed at all?
Are you shooting in raw? Is your library referenced or managed? Is your library on your system volume or on an external harddrive?
And it would help to know your MacOS version and Aperture version too.
Regards
Léonie
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