Does anyone know how to restore my iMac HD using SuperDuper? I am unable to start up to my backup external hard drive, I don't see how I can restore using Utilities. HELP!!
If your clone is on the external drive and it won't boot, you can't use it to restore.
What is wrong with your internal that you need to restore? Or, do I have it wrong?
If the computer is working OK, use System Prefs to chose your startup disk, choose and boot from your external and run SD from there. Clone backwards.
If problems booting your Mac, hold the Option key down at startup; when your HD appears, wait a few secs and your external should appear; select the External as your startup disk, then run SD from the external back to your Mac.
I held the "option" key while starting, the clicked on the external drive to start. Came to a window that instructed me to go back and select the HD to start.
If perchance you are using a wireless Bluetooth keyboard it might be helpful to plug in an old USB keyboard if you are having trouble making boot drive selections by holding down keys when rebooting.
Everything froze this morning. With the help of Apple Tech, I was finally able to boot using my install CD. Ran disk repair and received a message that there was a problem and I would have back up my hard drive, erase my hard drive and restore.
When I back up using SuperDuper, it runs through a series of things, including making the backup a start up drive. I just assumed that it would work when I needed it. Guess I was wrong.
Do your clean wipe. Get your Mac bootable. Then don't do any updates - just boot into your external, and reverse clone SD from there. The wipe should take about a minute or two; the clone back an hour or more depending on the size of your useage (200gb took an hour and a half approximately a few days ago to fix a similar problem on a 6 month old MBP).
I erased the hard drive, reinstalled from the install disk, restarted the computer, then restarted holding down the "option" key. Clicked on external hard drive. Got the same Kernel Version 10.0.0 and instructions to restart the computer. In other words, erasing and reinstalling without updates didn't work. I am going to try to update the system to prior to 10.6.3 and see if that does anything. Any other ideas would be helpful.