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10.5: Ease restore from Time Machine
Authored by: dashard on Oct 29, '07 06:33:06AM

If you want to be able to 'clone' your Leopard install DVD to a bootable hard disk, you will need to do a couple of things.

- First, ensure that your target disk is in fact bootable. Check.
- Next, open up the Disk Utility and choose File>>New>>Disk Image from Folder. I have read that choosing (if available) New>>Disk Image from (Select a Device) actually does not copy everything, especially the niggling boot bits. (Feel free to correct me on this out there.)
- Once you have your Disk Image clone, Use Disk Utility to 'restore' it to your target drive. (Select your target drive in the left column list, choose the 'Restore' tab, set the Source to your newly created disk image, and the destination to your target disk.)

Voila! A DVD cloned to a hard drive that should be perfectly bootable if you followed above steps properly.



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