Hello,
I know this is a subject that is beaten to death, but I *KNOW* there must be some command line tools and information to do on a Mac what people have been doing under other operating systems for years: create a partition, copy an OS to it, and boot from it.
My situation: I am traveling and have a Macbook Pro for work. It somehow started refusing to boot--the boot partition became corrupt. Having no disks, I took the machine to the local apple store, where they re-installed Lion fresh. I then tried to run Bootcamp Assistant, but this absolutely crummy tool refuses to partition the drive without a windows 7 install disk. I believe older versions did allow a resize, but no longer. So, I used diskutil to resize the boot partition, and create an NTFS partition.
I would have just used rsync to copy the NTFS partition from the old drive to the new partition, but I can't find anything to support this on the web. Can't I just copy the files? I see numerous references to a no-longer supported WinClone, so I did try it. The software wouldn't directly copy, but turned a 200G NTFS drive into a 200G image, although there was only 50G of data. Then, it refused to restore that to a 100G partition, saying the partition is too small. I am baffled as to why this piece of software is being recommended and linked by so many.
There must be a way to:
Resize the image (diskutil seems to be fine)
copy the files
mark with an MBR and make bootable using native tools. Does anyone have an idea how to go about this?
Is there a reason I can't just use rsync or cp to copy?
Thanks,
Dave
I know this is a subject that is beaten to death, but I *KNOW* there must be some command line tools and information to do on a Mac what people have been doing under other operating systems for years: create a partition, copy an OS to it, and boot from it.
My situation: I am traveling and have a Macbook Pro for work. It somehow started refusing to boot--the boot partition became corrupt. Having no disks, I took the machine to the local apple store, where they re-installed Lion fresh. I then tried to run Bootcamp Assistant, but this absolutely crummy tool refuses to partition the drive without a windows 7 install disk. I believe older versions did allow a resize, but no longer. So, I used diskutil to resize the boot partition, and create an NTFS partition.
I would have just used rsync to copy the NTFS partition from the old drive to the new partition, but I can't find anything to support this on the web. Can't I just copy the files? I see numerous references to a no-longer supported WinClone, so I did try it. The software wouldn't directly copy, but turned a 200G NTFS drive into a 200G image, although there was only 50G of data. Then, it refused to restore that to a 100G partition, saying the partition is too small. I am baffled as to why this piece of software is being recommended and linked by so many.
There must be a way to:
Resize the image (diskutil seems to be fine)
copy the files
mark with an MBR and make bootable using native tools. Does anyone have an idea how to go about this?
Is there a reason I can't just use rsync or cp to copy?
Thanks,
Dave
