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    Anyone Know how to do this?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by kabooky, Aug 21, 2006.

  1. kabooky

    kabooky Notebook Guru

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    I have mapped my desktop (windows) computer to my mac through an ethernet network, I can see it and read and write.

    Now I will be getting a 160gb harddrive to replace the internal stock drive and I want to image my mac to the mapped desktop, but disk utility doesn't seem to let me..

    The whole reason is so I can install the new drive, install osx, and then restore the mac from the image that i'm trying to back to my desktop.
     
    kabooky, Aug 21, 2006
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    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    Not sure if this helps you or not, but have you thought about getting a 2.5" external drive enclosure like this one for $35:

    http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/ME25AUFW/

    This would make it fairly easy to just put your old drive in the enclosure, install your new drive in the MacBook and copy everything over from the external drive.

    Then you would also be able to use your old drive as an external drive for whatever you wanted, rather than letting it go to waste.
     
    zadillo, Aug 21, 2006
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  3. kabooky

    kabooky Notebook Guru

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    Well, I was thinking about getting a drive enclosure, but- more recently not since I figure- If I ever need to send it in for some kind of repair, It would be easier to have that original drive stashed away for me to just slide back in- along with the original ram, to prevent anyone from blaming the non-apple parts for the problems. I think it would just be more convenient, plus I don't have any big needs for a relatively small external harddrive.
     
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  4. cashmonee

    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Well here is how I did it. It will require three things: A firewire card in your desktop, a firewire cable and finally MacDrive 6. All I do is hook up my MBP via firewire to my PC, start it in target disk mode and voila! It shows up as an external hard drive. It is not really quite that simple since it required a little voodoo to get the MBP to actually look like an external drive to Windows, only done it once and cannot remember exactly how I did it. But the problem is that Windows auto-installs about 3 different types of mass storage drivers because to Windows the MBP looks like a external hard drive, optical drive, and generic mass storage device. I have not really fooled with it enough yet to get it to be just one. But it is a good place to start.
     
    cashmonee, Aug 22, 2006
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