On Jan 7, 2006, at 7:58 pm, Don Hinkle wrote:
Our G4 iMac HD crashed but not before I backed it up to external HD
using carbon copy cloner.
CCC - turning a disaster into an annoyance. :-)
Now the iMac is returned with a new HD and a fresh copy of OS X 10.2.8
installed.
The apple genius tried to restore stuff from the original HD and made
a folder that contains about 30% of what was there. (Didn't, for
instance, capture Quickbooks or some other important apps)
However, the backup on external HD seems complete.
I'm looking at all this and wondering what's best to do.
Has anyone been through this procedure and have a checklist on what to
do in what order?
What I did was: boot from the FW drive; run Carbon Copy Cloner,
choosing the FW drive as source and the internal HD as target, and
making sure "Make bootable" was checked in preferences; get some lunch
while ~30GB of files copied; choose the internal drive as startup disk;
restart. There was my familiar desktop, with login items, user
preferences, keychains, cookies, email filters etc all present and
correct.
I ran software update (I run 10.3.9) just in case there'd been any
security updates, and copied some recent files from my other Mac, and
that was that.
In your case, I'd hang on to the folder with the recovered files, just
in case there's anything in there that's newer than the full backup you
made. But you shouldn't have any problems just cloning the clone back
to your iMac.
Miche.
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