Boot CD For MAC
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I have recently moved into repairing MAC's is there a boot able CD for MAC similar to Hirens any help would be appreciated
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You don't need it. POINTLESS!!!!
You should be able to a boot using the internet. Step 1) Connect computer to interwebs. Step 2) Hold down Command-R or is it Command-Option-R (don't have a mac in front of me, sorry). Step 3) Wish you bought a faster internet connection....god this slow 99% of the time... Step 4) Watch the globe spin like crazy or the progress move at the speed of a dead snail... Step 5) See step 3. Step 6) All done...wait....wait....still loading
You should be able to a boot using the internet. Step 1) Connect computer to interwebs. Step 2) Hold down Command-R or is it Command-Option-R (don't have a mac in front of me, sorry). Step 3) Wish you bought a faster internet connection....god this slow 99% of the time... Step 4) Watch the globe spin like crazy or the progress move at the speed of a dead snail... Step 5) See step 3. Step 6) All done...wait....wait....still loading
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Not all Macs do the internet restore.
You could invest in TechTool, it's handy sometimes, though not really the greatest. You can also use Memtest86+ or Eurosoft PC Check on Intel Macs for hardware tests (I find the apple hardware tests unreliable). Beyond that, it's REALLY useful to have a bench mac for a number of reasons.
Our mac repair software is just this:
Tech Tool, , Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, Disk Warrior, Data Rescue 3 and all of the OS X versions from the past few years
You could invest in TechTool, it's handy sometimes, though not really the greatest. You can also use Memtest86+ or Eurosoft PC Check on Intel Macs for hardware tests (I find the apple hardware tests unreliable). Beyond that, it's REALLY useful to have a bench mac for a number of reasons.
Our mac repair software is just this:
Tech Tool, , Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, Disk Warrior, Data Rescue 3 and all of the OS X versions from the past few years
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Yep, recovery mode on machines that have had 10.7 or greater installed. Generally speaking Parted Magic works pretty good from my experience.
Forgot to add a link to an Apple KB about using their hardware tests.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
Forgot to add a link to an Apple KB about using their hardware tests.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
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To add to what Mark and 14049752 said, most later versions of OS X can boot into recovery mode by holding the option key at boot up time. Then you can use the basic disk utility tools.
I like to have an external drive that will boot with OS X. There are lots of instructions on the web on how to do this, Carbon Copy Cloner being one of the simplest. Unlike Windows, OS X will boot from a USB or Firewire external drive with full functionality and you can then access the files or repair the internal disk. Thunderbolt drives are still too expensive for my use.
I then install either TechTool or Disk Warrior on the external drive. I have them both, because they are slightly different, with Disk Warrior being better for fixing an undamaged disk that won't boot. You can't repair the drive you boot from, so having the tools on the external works best.
If you want to do more serious data recovery, Data Rescue 3 is my favorite, but I am becoming more inclined to send it to a pro like $300 Data recovery since they are just around the corner from me.
I like to have an external drive that will boot with OS X. There are lots of instructions on the web on how to do this, Carbon Copy Cloner being one of the simplest. Unlike Windows, OS X will boot from a USB or Firewire external drive with full functionality and you can then access the files or repair the internal disk. Thunderbolt drives are still too expensive for my use.
I then install either TechTool or Disk Warrior on the external drive. I have them both, because they are slightly different, with Disk Warrior being better for fixing an undamaged disk that won't boot. You can't repair the drive you boot from, so having the tools on the external works best.
If you want to do more serious data recovery, Data Rescue 3 is my favorite, but I am becoming more inclined to send it to a pro like $300 Data recovery since they are just around the corner from me.
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Markverhyden
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I just discovered that, from I can find, that DR3 does not handle native OS X RAID volumes. One can do that from R-Tools virtual RAID though.
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I don't do much OS X raid, but look here
http://www.prosofteng.com/blog/reco...using-data-rescue-3-by-prosoft-engineering-2/
http://www.prosofteng.com/blog/reco...using-data-rescue-3-by-prosoft-engineering-2/
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Thanks for the link. I'll research it. This situation is rather odd. Was able to make a copy to one USB drive without errors just using drag and drop in the beginning. Retrospect DB. Works fine. When I went to try to do it again to a second drive I get a error saying no room. No matter what I do, including R-Tools, it wants to see a 683gb file as a 4+ gb file.
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