TDM isn’t a facility — it’s a just firmware hack that gives you interface access to the drive buses and emulates an external drive enclosure. No OS, no programming is running, except minor firmware such as you would find inside a typical drive enclosure. If you put a Mac into TDM, when you mount it on another machine, the disk drive(s) appear on the desktop (at least under the historic settings of desktop preferences), even including any opticals that may be inserted.
Since TDM simply emulates a stupid enclosure, if the internal drive is unformatted, then it will mount as an unformatted drive, which you can format from the working one. Just treat the TDM Mac as a dumb enclosure, and do exactly what you would do if the new drive were in a dumb enclosure. On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:37 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: > >> If the former, I would start the empty one in TDM, (ideally) boot the >> working one from a separate drive or DVD of any version of Mac OS if >> possible, then use Disk Utility to “restore” the working one’s drive onto >> the empty one. (It’s best not to be booted from the working drive at this >> point, because then the drive is being constantly changed. It will usually >> work, but it’s cleanest to avoid that.) > > Ah, so that’s the key: booting the good one from an install DVD. Thus TDM > sees /all/ drives, mounted or not? > > Also, I assume that I will need to reformat the new drive (to Mac OS > Extended, Journaled) before TDM will touch it. I guess this requires booting > that one first from an install DVD to run Disk Utility, and then proceed with > performing the TDM transfer? > > -Carl > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
