restore disk from carbon copy cloner sparse disk image using disk utility

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restore disk from carbon copy cloner sparse disk image using disk utility

How do you restore a disk from a sparse disk image file that was created by either carbon copy cloner or super duper using disk utility?

It seems that whenever I go into disk utility from my installer dvd and try to restore a disk the source image must be a disk image and not a sparse image.

Is it possible to restore a disk from a sparse image?

I'm trying to do this in both leopard and tiger. Would there be any difference between these?

PB G4 17 1.33GHz 1GB, macbook 2 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jul 25, 2008 8:23 AM

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kathigitis Author

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Jul 25, 2008 11:12 AM in response to kathigitis

kathigitis wrote:
How do you restore a disk from a sparse disk image file that was created by either carbon copy cloner or super duper using disk utility?

I found the answer to the super duper restore here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=328607

and I found the answer to the ccc restore here

http://www.bombich.com/software/docs/CCCHelp/content/dimages.html#dimages.html_r estore

The problem with ccc is that you must:

first boot from another installation of Mac OS X and:

1. Install Mac OS X and CCC onto an external USB or Firewire hard drive
2. Boot from that external hard drive and launch CCC

This is not the case with sd - making it, imo, quite worth the price of the sw.

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