09-28-2009, 05:07 PM

Hi Newbie here have had MPB 17" Ali for a yr or so now and have been hearing the dreaded HDD clicking which according to interweb will be failing very soon have made a full back up of main drive but problem i have is when i bought the mac it had no os x leopard disks with it have ordered new bigger drive but is there any way i could load osx from the backup ?
have spoken to apple and their records show it was originally Tiger and has been updated but dont want to fork out a fortune on OS when i have a copy on my failing HDD
any help would be much appreciated

thanks in advance

nelo36

09-28-2009, 05:13 PM

If you made a backup of your disk with either Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner, then the system should be in tact on the clone, assuming you restore it properly.

09-28-2009, 05:17 PM

hi thanks for the quick response have still got it running at the moment and have made a copy via time machine but when i put the new drive in i just get a small envelope with ? in it i only have a usb backup if that makes a difference

also don't know how i would go about restoring from ext drive

any help appreciated

nelo36

09-28-2009, 07:35 PM

with a powerbook I have never figured out how to use USB for boot devices.

I know folks have said its possible.. but I have not investigated it ..

My suggestion is to get a cheap external enclosure firewire (20$)
put your new hard drive in it .. and Use SuperDuper to clone your existing
hard drive. it is very simple and straight forward to use.

SuperDuper!

was and I think still free to clone.

then after it reboots to the external drive test every thing out .. then
put it in to your PB and you are ready to go..

09-28-2009, 09:34 PM

Isn't there a way to boot from the OS X install/restore disc that came with your machine.... oh. Never mind, you're missing it. Umm..... crap.

09-28-2009, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by csegeek

with a powerbook I have never figured out how to use USB for boot devices.

I know folks have said its possible.. but I have not investigated it ..

My suggestion is to get a cheap external enclosure firewire (20$)
put your new hard drive in it .. and Use SuperDuper to clone your existing
hard drive. it is very simple and straight forward to use.

SuperDuper!

was and I think still free to clone.

then after it reboots to the external drive test every thing out .. then
put it in to your PB and you are ready to go..

I would go this route. I did exactly what this man said. Essentially you are cloning your HD and you don't need the OS install disks. And it basically picks up from where you left off. here is a video tutorial that one of our members here made that I followed and it made it really easy.

I know you have a diff macbook but follow the steps of cloning the HD and you should be able to get it if you are a visual learner.

YouTube - Guide: How To Clone Hard Drive : For Apple MacBook / MacBook Pro Hard Drive Upgrade Using SuperDuper

hope this helps.

09-29-2009, 11:40 AM

many thanks for all the assistance super duper then install hdd worked a treat
all fine again yippeeeee

thanks to cse geek for the for the guide

regards

nelo