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To the geniuses here, I hope you might be able to spare a few insights for a non-pro user. So, I have this 24" iMac (white plastic body but still intel-chip) from about 2006 that had been giving me a lot of video-card issues(pixelated lines across the screen, etc.) so I upgraded to a new iMac and am trying to restore the old to resell.
Now, here's where I'm at, and I take full responsibility for my ignorance up until this point:
I have the iMac itself, a firewire 400/800 to connect the 2 machines, and the wireless keyboard and mouse seem to pair to both so I'm using the same key/mouse for both. I don't have an external harddrive or even a big enough flash drive to image snow leopard to, and on top of this I don't have any dvd's either. I might have to go out and buy a little usb external drive to use for imaging a restore disk, but very poor right now so trying to figure out any way to do this just between the machines over firewire. I have a .dmg of the installation disk for 10.6.3 on my new computer to use as an image.
Now, where I messed up was watching this online tutorial to try and first erase the harddrive before reinstallation using diskutility: I erased the entire drive rather than the subset drive that I guess I was supposed to(ugh, my bad, but I'm paying for it) and now the old iMac just boots to a broken folder icon, which makes sense.
but can anyone help me find a way to restore the thing with my other iMac? it is still able to boot into target disk mode, etc but now i can't use diskutility to restore it because it's giving me the error: Needs to be image-scanned before it can be restored.
I submit my plight to ye gods of Mac. please help
Now, here's where I'm at, and I take full responsibility for my ignorance up until this point:
I have the iMac itself, a firewire 400/800 to connect the 2 machines, and the wireless keyboard and mouse seem to pair to both so I'm using the same key/mouse for both. I don't have an external harddrive or even a big enough flash drive to image snow leopard to, and on top of this I don't have any dvd's either. I might have to go out and buy a little usb external drive to use for imaging a restore disk, but very poor right now so trying to figure out any way to do this just between the machines over firewire. I have a .dmg of the installation disk for 10.6.3 on my new computer to use as an image.
Now, where I messed up was watching this online tutorial to try and first erase the harddrive before reinstallation using diskutility: I erased the entire drive rather than the subset drive that I guess I was supposed to(ugh, my bad, but I'm paying for it) and now the old iMac just boots to a broken folder icon, which makes sense.
but can anyone help me find a way to restore the thing with my other iMac? it is still able to boot into target disk mode, etc but now i can't use diskutility to restore it because it's giving me the error: Needs to be image-scanned before it can be restored.
I submit my plight to ye gods of Mac. please help
