mnsax.blogg.se - Restart target disk mode

Choose Format as “compressed” and click Save.

Name the disk image and choose the external disk as location.

Select File in the top menu bar > New Image > Image from (your disk name).

Select the Mac’s hard drive, usually labeled as Macintosh HD.

Select Disk Utility and click Continue.

Create a disk image of Mac’s hard drive.

Wait until you see the macOS Utilities (or OS X Utilities) window.

Release the keys until you see the boot screen.

Press and hold the Command + R (or Command + Option + R) before the Mac starts to boot.

The disk should have enough free capacity for backup.

The disk can’t be APFS formatted if your Mac is running macOS 10.12 or earlier because those OS versions don’t support APFS.

The disk can’t be NTFS formatted because Mac OS doesn’t have NTFS write support.There are a few requirements for the backup disk. Connect an external drive to your Mac computer.So anymore help or ideas of what I could do differently from what I've been doing would be greatly appreciated. Entire afternoon/evening and now night spent trying. * Starting TDM with the Sawtooth off AND the no firewire cable connected (and then I put the cable in and start the Sawtooth hoping the Mini will "see" it at that point)Īnd I've done all the same starting with the Sawtooth and trying to get it to see the Mini.

* Starting TDM with the Sawtooth ON and the firewire cable connected. * Starting TDM with the Sawtooth off but the firewire cable connected. I go under System Preferences and press the Target Disk Mode button and when it restarts it comes back up with the firewire icon. So that said, yes, I'll start the Mini with the Sawtooth off. Is that what's messing me up? 'Cause I can only see what's happening on whatever computer I start from since - as we all know - the mini does not come with a Monitor.

OK, I should state here that I only have one monitor.