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I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - pRICE cUBE - 06-06-2011
Having a recent hd die, I ponder how you get your OS back up if a hd all of a sudden dies in the middle of a huge project?
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - decay - 06-06-2011
Time Machine?
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - MEG - 06-06-2011
From your backup (the most recent one that was made only a scant few hours before the untimely death)
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - GGD - 06-06-2011
decay wrote:
Time Machine?
And how do you get to time machine without an OS on the drive or an install DVD?
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - Zoidberg - 06-06-2011
GGD wrote:
[quote=decay]
Time Machine?
And how do you get to time machine without an OS on the drive or an install DVD?
Likely they'll build something into the guts of Time Machine at some point soon to address this. Always wondered why TM didn't have the provision to set up an "emergency boot drive" kind of thing; maybe it now will. Maybe, too, this is part of the next iteration of Macs; a basic startup system will be "hardwired" into the brains of the machine (non-volatile RAM?) that allows for simple booting and setup.
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - space-time - 06-06-2011
I'm not a smart man...
then use an iPad.
I wonder if you could burn it to DVD after you download Lion? a bootable DVD, of course
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - decay - 06-06-2011
carbon copy cloner first?
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - MEG - 06-06-2011
GGD wrote:
And how do you get to time machine without an OS on the drive or an install DVD?
My guess is the 4GB download will be a bootable disc image that you can burn to a DVD. At the very least, you could copy the file to another disk/USB stick that's bootable.
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - Jimmypoo - 06-06-2011
My download of the beta was on a dual layer......
and then there have been two upgrades (about 1GB each) to upgrade those.
I think I'm at 11a459e. I hope that's the gold master!
Re: I'm not a smart man, please explain Lion if say my hard drive dies - modelamac - 06-06-2011
Fairly simple.
When you download from the App Store, BUT BEFORE you install, you use Disk Utility to make a dmg file. You burn that file to DVD or put it on an external drive. You now have your dmg installer for backup.
Then you install Lion on up to 5 Macs.
I fully expect that Lion will be installable on a bare drive (like SL is) as well as an upgrade over SL.