"Brick Protection" while testing out stuff

[RichP]

I just bricked my MBP, and recovered. Dont forget about the power of disk image!

I made an image of the MBP before I started messing with it (after I had XP running) and was able to restore my XP drive and it works as if nothing happened (I am using a 2nd machine and firewire drive mode on the MBP) Also, It may be able to make an image of your XP drive in OSX on the same machine, and restore that way. (You can always just delete all the files in the XP drive and mount your XP image and drag and drop the older, uncorrupted ones back in)

Now, back to that x1600 driver... :D
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[inkhead]

How do I make an image? Should I boot from target disc mode to make an image with disc utility? Once you brick the macbook pro, does it even boot the OS X cd so you can restore the disc image?

Please explain in great detail exactly what you did.

[mr breaker]

Anyone else experiment with making a disc image of the Windows partition and then restore it?

I originally formatted my drive as NTFS, but I realized I probably should have went with FAT to be more compatible with OS X. I'd like to re-run the XP setup and reformat the windows partition and then restore a dmg to it from OS X.

Will that work?

[inkhead]

OS X on Intel is really, really annoying. I made a disc image of my OS X image, and disk utility won't let me restore it. It starts to restore then quits halfway through! erasing the data already there! even though the disk image is fine. It's horrible, it's like apple didn't even think about these things. Damnit, its like using windows, can't install or even restore my old copy of OS X.

[RichP]

Actually, it worked for me once, and now its being a PITA.

I forgot how much I hate windows.
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[mlazy]

Inkhead:

I've been using Carbon Copy Cloner on my OSX partition before I do any work. This way, when I blow things up, I boot off the backup I made, and restore osx back to the internal HD. It's much faster than the disk image garbage, and it's free. (donations etc)

[RichP]

Carbon Copy? Ill have to check that out, disk utility is being such a b!tch right now, I cant even get XP reinstalled (the MSDOS partition doesnt "take" it seems)
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[mlazy]

Yeah, get it from versiontracker.com. I want to investigate using it to back up my ntfs partition like mentioned above when I get home.

[kollik]

You can also use SuperDuper or Deja Vu to restore your Mac OS X partition