Erase disk and reinstall OS X Leopard - help
Hi there,
it's been for about 3 weeks now, that I am having a new iMac 24" with a TimeCapsule. For years, I have always and only had a Mac, but this time, I am so frustrated that I wish I had never bought these expensive machines. For 3 days now during my holidays I am only busy with this machine, day and night. Very very annoying and I never had problems like this. I would deeply appreciate your help on this:
How do I erase the disk and reinstall Leopard?
That's what I did:
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1st Attempt, 2 days ago:
(based on support that I received from Micromat)
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Boot from the OS X install CD.
Once the Installer window is up, go to UTILITIES in the Main Menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click on "Open Disk Utility".
On the left side of the window select the hard drive indented to the left with the physical size and name of the drive. Example: 152.7 GB Maxtor 6L160MO
Click on the "Erase" option.
The format should be set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Click on the button under the Name field called "Options" or "Security Options".
Select "Zero Out Data" and click on "Erase" on the previous screen.
Then, I wanted to migrate data from my Time Capsule. In accordance to this article, I chose the option "Restoring an existing Time Capsule backup to a new Mac":
1. When your new Mac starts up for the first time, you are asked if you want to transfer information from another Mac or volume (in the "Do You Already Own a Mac?" window).
2. Click "From a Time Machine backup or other disk."
3. Click Continue.
4. If you are connected to your Time Capsule via an Ethernet cable instead of wirelessly, skip to step 9.
5. Under Select a Backup Volume click the Join button to join your wireless (Time Capsule) network.
6. In the next sheet, enter your network name or click the Show Networks button to see a list of detected networks.
7. Click your wireless network and type the password.
8. Click Join.
9. Time Capsule appears as a Backup Volume. Select it, then click Continue to proceed.
10. Enter the password for your Time Capsule.
11. Click Connect to proceed.
12. Your Mac will check the Time Machine backup for a period of time.
13. The "Transfer Your Information" window appears. Select the desired accounts, network and other settings, Applications folders, Files, and folders that you want to restore.
14. Click Transfer. You can monitor the progress of the transfer in the Transferring Information window.
What happened after many hours? The Mac told me, that there was an error restoring data. Start over again?
Then, I decided to the have the disk erased again by 0 out data using DiskUtility in order to not have overlaps. If that was right or not, I do not know, just common sense because everything was stuck.
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2nd Attempt:
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0 out data as described in the 1st Attempt.
then, instead of migrating data from TimeCapsule, I choose to have connect it to my old LaCie using firewire. I hoped, like the first set up, that it would migrate data.
After having run for app. 8 hours (only about 80 GB data!), and not stopping. For one hour, it said that it would stop within within one minute ..... this minute kept on lasting ..... for more than at least an hour. So, I pressed quit!
The effect: my Mac was down to 200 GB disk space left out of a capacity of 750 GB whilst I only had data on my little LaCie for about less than 80 GB!).
3rd attempt: what should I do?
No peace with this machine, at all. Not even during holidays.
Thanks for your help,
George
it's been for about 3 weeks now, that I am having a new iMac 24" with a TimeCapsule. For years, I have always and only had a Mac, but this time, I am so frustrated that I wish I had never bought these expensive machines. For 3 days now during my holidays I am only busy with this machine, day and night. Very very annoying and I never had problems like this. I would deeply appreciate your help on this:
How do I erase the disk and reinstall Leopard?
That's what I did:
**********************************************
1st Attempt, 2 days ago:
(based on support that I received from Micromat)
**********************************************
Boot from the OS X install CD.
Once the Installer window is up, go to UTILITIES in the Main Menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click on "Open Disk Utility".
On the left side of the window select the hard drive indented to the left with the physical size and name of the drive. Example: 152.7 GB Maxtor 6L160MO
Click on the "Erase" option.
The format should be set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Click on the button under the Name field called "Options" or "Security Options".
Select "Zero Out Data" and click on "Erase" on the previous screen.
Then, I wanted to migrate data from my Time Capsule. In accordance to this article, I chose the option "Restoring an existing Time Capsule backup to a new Mac":
1. When your new Mac starts up for the first time, you are asked if you want to transfer information from another Mac or volume (in the "Do You Already Own a Mac?" window).
2. Click "From a Time Machine backup or other disk."
3. Click Continue.
4. If you are connected to your Time Capsule via an Ethernet cable instead of wirelessly, skip to step 9.
5. Under Select a Backup Volume click the Join button to join your wireless (Time Capsule) network.
6. In the next sheet, enter your network name or click the Show Networks button to see a list of detected networks.
7. Click your wireless network and type the password.
8. Click Join.
9. Time Capsule appears as a Backup Volume. Select it, then click Continue to proceed.
10. Enter the password for your Time Capsule.
11. Click Connect to proceed.
12. Your Mac will check the Time Machine backup for a period of time.
13. The "Transfer Your Information" window appears. Select the desired accounts, network and other settings, Applications folders, Files, and folders that you want to restore.
14. Click Transfer. You can monitor the progress of the transfer in the Transferring Information window.
What happened after many hours? The Mac told me, that there was an error restoring data. Start over again?
Then, I decided to the have the disk erased again by 0 out data using DiskUtility in order to not have overlaps. If that was right or not, I do not know, just common sense because everything was stuck.
**********************************************
2nd Attempt:
**********************************************
0 out data as described in the 1st Attempt.
then, instead of migrating data from TimeCapsule, I choose to have connect it to my old LaCie using firewire. I hoped, like the first set up, that it would migrate data.
After having run for app. 8 hours (only about 80 GB data!), and not stopping. For one hour, it said that it would stop within within one minute ..... this minute kept on lasting ..... for more than at least an hour. So, I pressed quit!
The effect: my Mac was down to 200 GB disk space left out of a capacity of 750 GB whilst I only had data on my little LaCie for about less than 80 GB!).
3rd attempt: what should I do?
No peace with this machine, at all. Not even during holidays.
Thanks for your help,
George
brand new iMac Intel, 24", 750 GB HD, 2GM RAM (bad machine!), Mac OS X (10.5.5), TimeCapsule (bad machine, don't ever buy it!), PowerBook (the good old and reliable Mac generation)
