Can't Open my Backup DMG years of data gone
Okay I'm going to try to describe this in as much detail as I can and hopefully someone out there can help. I'm using a Mac Pro that has one harddrive in it, 250gb. I also have a Macbook Pro. I also have an external USB drive that's 250gb, and it's partitioned in 2 parts, on is about 200 and the other is 50. I can NOT boot from this drive.
A couple of days ago I decided I would back up my Mac Pro in anticipation of Leopard. So I booted into the Tiger Install disc that came with my computer, and used the disc utility to create a restore image of my entire Harddrive, using the default settings. The image is saved to my external drive.
I got Leopard on Friday and installed it using a clean instal, erasing everything on my computer and installing it fresh. The install went fine and Leopard works magically on this machine. I decided it was time to start bringing my files over from my image I had created, so I attached my drive and opened the DMG, but it wouldn't open, giving me error -4960. PANIC ENSUED. I also tried to mount it on my MacBook Pro which is still running Tiger and I got the same error!
The next day (yesterday) I called Apple, and the man I spoke with told me the reason why it won't mount is because its a raw restore image and what I'll have to do is restore it using the disk utility again. That made sense to me. This morning I tried restoring the image with both the Leopard utility and the Tiger one as well (booting off the install DVDs, that is), but no matter what I do, I get the same error -4960!!
So at this point I'm basically shattered. I live on my computer, it's my whole life (I know that may sound sad haha but it's the truth). This is like having my house burn down, and on top of that, the IRONY of the situation is just too much. The whole reason for upgrading is to get Time Machine.. Ugh. Anyway, Im starting to run out of ideas here. I think maybe it could be because my external drive is a piece of crap or something, so I'm currently copying the thing over to my internal drive and I'll try that. Other than that, I'm thinking the image must be corrupt or something, does anybody know any hardcore tools that could be used in such a situation? Any terminal-fu that could possibly fix this whole problem? I did use data recovery software on the drive yesterday and managed to get a few things, I think,, but I havent really looked through them and it's really not the same as having the files themselves, you know? But I guess it's something.
So yeah, if ANYONE has any ideas on what to do, you have no idea how thankful I would be to hear it.
Jason
A couple of days ago I decided I would back up my Mac Pro in anticipation of Leopard. So I booted into the Tiger Install disc that came with my computer, and used the disc utility to create a restore image of my entire Harddrive, using the default settings. The image is saved to my external drive.
I got Leopard on Friday and installed it using a clean instal, erasing everything on my computer and installing it fresh. The install went fine and Leopard works magically on this machine. I decided it was time to start bringing my files over from my image I had created, so I attached my drive and opened the DMG, but it wouldn't open, giving me error -4960. PANIC ENSUED. I also tried to mount it on my MacBook Pro which is still running Tiger and I got the same error!
The next day (yesterday) I called Apple, and the man I spoke with told me the reason why it won't mount is because its a raw restore image and what I'll have to do is restore it using the disk utility again. That made sense to me. This morning I tried restoring the image with both the Leopard utility and the Tiger one as well (booting off the install DVDs, that is), but no matter what I do, I get the same error -4960!!
So at this point I'm basically shattered. I live on my computer, it's my whole life (I know that may sound sad haha but it's the truth). This is like having my house burn down, and on top of that, the IRONY of the situation is just too much. The whole reason for upgrading is to get Time Machine.. Ugh. Anyway, Im starting to run out of ideas here. I think maybe it could be because my external drive is a piece of crap or something, so I'm currently copying the thing over to my internal drive and I'll try that. Other than that, I'm thinking the image must be corrupt or something, does anybody know any hardcore tools that could be used in such a situation? Any terminal-fu that could possibly fix this whole problem? I did use data recovery software on the drive yesterday and managed to get a few things, I think,, but I havent really looked through them and it's really not the same as having the files themselves, you know? But I guess it's something.
So yeah, if ANYONE has any ideas on what to do, you have no idea how thankful I would be to hear it.
Jason
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