APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD INSTALL
APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD UPDATE
APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD UPGRADE
APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD FULL
APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD PC

I kept a log as I went through the process, might be helpful to someone. I found that I could use a later version of the installation disk, even though it was for a different computer. The following is kind of long, but may be useful to someone else having problems repairing the internal drive. So starting over with a fresh total backup fixed my problem with Time Machine. Took a long time, but then when it finished it started making hourly backups during the night and going into Time Machine I can see all of the hourly backups. Then I restarted Time Machine and it began a new backup. So, I deleted the backup file on the external USB drive, checked to see that it was formatted correctely to run Time Machine and it was. Not sure there is an auto-correct editor here. I meant to say 'seems a shame to take it back two or three Revs' in my last post. You two are most helpful and spend a lot of time here giving good advice and help to those of us less experienced in the Mac world. Unless one of you have a quick solution that I see first. If not, I'll cruse the Time Machine forum for a solution and if none found post there. I'm hoping that my disk problem was the cause of these problems with Time Machine. But they are not visable from Time Machine. Going to the backup disk (external USB drive) the backup files are there and it creates a new set of files for each backup. It also doesn't show any history of backups when you enter Time Maching. It will do a backup when you tell it to and then it will give you a time for the next backup, but it never does the next backup and I stopped it from sleeping (per some suggestions here) and that didn't make any difference and I have been sitting at the computer using it as the scheduled time goes by and no back-up. My Time Machine hasn't been doing automatic backups. One more question and I'll see about this next. This solution came to me late last night as I lay in bed thinking about this and planning my trip to the local Apple store today to buy an installation DVD.ĭisk Utility just finished repairing my internal disk. A very (seemingly) complex problem often has a very simple solution. There were two simple errors on the disk (off one number on both volume file count and volume directory count).

APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD INSTALL

So as I type this on my MBP, the iMac is booted to the original install DVD and disk utility is repairing my iMac internal disk drive.

Simple solution was to insert the iMac installation disk into the Super Drive and then when the Installation Disk was recognized, select it and push the Restart Button. Of couse none of them would boot the system, because System Preferrences, Startup Disk was set to boot from the Macintosh HD OSX 10.6.8.

APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD UPGRADE

I tried these several times, tried the ones from my MBP (Leopard 10.6.6) and tried the OSX upgrade 1.1 to Snow Leopard 10.6.8, and I even followed Kappy's suggestion to creat a bootable 8 GByte Flash Drive. I bought it from my son-in-law and he kept the DVDs and gave them to me with the iMac. I have the installation DVDs that came with this iMac. You can change that boot order, but that is the way most PCs are set up.

APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD PC

In the PC world (as you probably know) when you boot the computer, usually it is set to first check the floppy disk, then the CD drive, and if both are empty, then it boots from the hard drive. My problem was simply a matter of selecting the correct boot device to reboot the system. I am a convert to the Mac world having grown up professionally in the PC world. Is there a way to make a recovery disk from the files on the computer? Seems like disk utility should be able to create a clone of the OS and limited utilities to boot the computer with. I assume it will have some utilities, etc. So guess I go to the Apple store tomorrow and hope they have this DVD in stock.

APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD FULL

So, I guess I need to get a full installation DVD with more than just the *.dmg file on it. It just made a copy of the DVD with the *.dmg file on it.

So, I tried you solution above, using the disk image burned to the DVD and an 8GByte USB flash drive. it booted the system from the internal disk. I tried it again and this time used the 'D' key to see if it would take me to the diagnostics. When holding down the 'C' key during the boot it was supposed to boot, but it brought in the system from the internal drive. OK, I tried to boot to this new DVD and got the same result. So I am burning it to a DVD and I suspect that I can use it to run disk diagnostic and repair my internal drive.ĭisk Manager reports that the DVD is bootable. I still have the file in my download folder. It downloaded an installation program named Mac OSXUpd10.6.8.dmg.

APPLE SNOW LEOPARD RECOVERY DISK TO DVD UPDATE

Today I updated the Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with an update to v 1.1. But, I think I have another solution that I just stumbled on.

Apple snow leopard recovery disk to dvd