Unable to drag disk to destination for Restore in Disk Utility

I am trying to restore from a disk image in Disk Utility. I dragged the image to the Source Box. When I drag the partition from an external firewire drive to the Destination box, it won't accept it. I have tried to do this with partitions on two separate external firewire drives. The partitions are 10GB. The image file is 6GB

I had this problem just now. On the left side of your Disk Utility should be the partition/volume you want to use as your destination. Try dragging your destination partition/volume into the "Destination Disk" field. Worked for me.

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My computer comes with the Mac OS installed in it. I can't seem to find or remember an install DVD.
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"I have had this problem for a very long time, was just too lazy to post it until now. Since I got this G5 (about a year ago), it has be unable to launch Disk Utility - the entire system simply freezes. This was true for the original Panther install, still true when I re-installed from the re-install discs, and is still true now that I have upgraded to tiger (10.4.4 at this point), so I assume it must be hardware... when I start the G5 into target disk mode, and boot to it's drive with my laptop, the same instance of disk utility runs fine. I have sent the G5 in 3 times, and each time they said it was fixed when it wasn't. Now the warranty is expired, and I don't know what to do with this. Any suggestions? "
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Might want to start here:
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I'm currently trying to restore a time machine backup after my boot ssd recently failed, but am having trouble restoring the backup to my secondary internal drive in the optical bay. My set up isthe following:
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Thanks for a quick reply <baltwo>. You’ve answered that it is not a fake message!
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I have exactly the same problem,i backed up my internal HD, and want to restore it by starting my mac mini intel single core with the original delivered os dvd including diskutilities.But no way it is not possible to drag a volume or partition to the required field to the left.I called apple support and the guy did not understand what I'm talking about at all, and told me he will forward to the developer dep.
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