Scan Image for Restore?

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Scan Image for Restore?

I created a disk image last night to prepare for my upgrade to Snow Leopard and then this morning moved to the final step of "Scan Image for Restore" and I was wondering if anyone had any insights into how long this would take. It's been running for about an hour now and the progress bar doesn't show any progress, just shows the fast moving blue hashes in the bar. Is this normal, or is it possibly hung up on something? Note, the light on my external drive continues to blink, which makes me think it is doing something, just not sure if it is progressing and this just takes several hours, or if something is wrong. Any help is appreciated.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11), AEBS, Apple TV

Posted on Oct 31, 2010 11:00 AM

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BDAqua

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Oct 31, 2010 11:27 AM in response to UMich97grad

It can take a very long time, depending on size of the Image, and even slower via USB.

I think a much faster, better, more useful method is to clone your drive, then you'll have a bootable version of exactly what you have now.

Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

Or SuperDuper...

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/

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Oct 31, 2010 11:33 AM in response to BDAqua

Thanks BDAqua. Any pro's or con's to one over the other?

...and if I decided to stop the "Scan Image for Restore", is there a way to stop it?

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BDAqua

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Oct 31, 2010 11:40 AM in response to UMich97grad

I generally use CCC, but many swear by SD.

is there a way to stop it?

Isn't there a Cancel Button showing?

If not you may have to Force Quit DU...

Command + Option + esc, then highlight Disk Utility & quit it.

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UMich97grad Author

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Oct 31, 2010 11:55 AM in response to BDAqua

No cancel button. I'll just have to force quit. Any estimates on how long CCC would take to create a copy? My HD is 120GB and I'm using about 80GB, if that helps any.

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BDAqua

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Oct 31, 2010 11:59 AM in response to UMich97grad

I'd guess a couple of hours or less.

Once complete reboot & hold the Option/alt key down & boot from the external & test everything out.

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UMich97grad Author

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Oct 31, 2010 12:03 PM in response to BDAqua

Excellent. Thanks BDAqua!!!

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BDAqua

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Oct 31, 2010 12:06 PM in response to UMich97grad

You're welcome, do keep us posted on the outcome please. 🙂

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Oct 31, 2010 12:18 PM in response to BDAqua

Well, so far I've forced quit DU, but my external drive is still buzzing/working, and I noticed a file on the external drive called kNr2M.dmg, which looks like it was some type of file being used for the Scan Image for Restore. Do you know if it would be safe for me to eject the external HD to get it to stop?

I'm also noticing that the kNr2M.dmg file is continuing to grow in size. It was 8GB a few moments ago and it's now up to 11GB

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BDAqua

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Oct 31, 2010 12:22 PM in response to UMich97grad

Yes, I'd eject or unplug the drive, restart the reformat the external drive.

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UMich97grad Author

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Oct 31, 2010 12:24 PM in response to BDAqua

reformat the external drive? Is that something I have to do if I eject it? I ask, because it's my 1TB external drive that has "everything" on it and I don't want to lose anything.

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BDAqua

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Oct 31, 2010 12:32 PM in response to UMich97grad

Oh, you mean there's already stuff on there that isn't on the Internal drive?

If so then just delete that big file & use Disk Utility to Repair that HD.

Then when using CCC make darn certain you select not to erase what is on the drive.

Is the Drive MacOS Extended/HFS+ already?

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UMich97grad Author

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Oct 31, 2010 12:41 PM in response to BDAqua

Yes, there is about 500GB on that drive that is not on my internal HD. ...and yes, it is formatted as MacOS Extended/HFS+ currently.

Note, I have two external drives that are both 1TB, should I copy all of the contents from the one that is spinning over to the other before stopping it?

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BDAqua

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Oct 31, 2010 12:43 PM in response to UMich97grad

A Backup or two is always a good idea. What is on this other drive?

I think we might have to stop it before copying.

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Oct 31, 2010 12:47 PM in response to BDAqua

The other drive just has an additional copy of my iPhoto library and iTunes library which is on my first external drive.

Note, I can access files on both drives right now, even though the first one won't stop spinning.

...and the KrN2M.dmg file is up to 26GB's. I'm wondering if it will stop at 56GB, which is the size of the DMG image I created, that I was in the process of scanning.

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BDAqua

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Oct 31, 2010 2:12 PM in response to UMich97grad

Interesting, don't know about the size, but if you open Activity Monitor>Show All Processes, then sort on CPU%, you should see what process is using it.

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