- #Make backup image of mac os for hackintosh mac os x#
- #Make backup image of mac os for hackintosh install#
#Make backup image of mac os for hackintosh mac os x#
Softpedia does not condone piracy or the unauthorized duplication of Mac OS X Tiger. For Time Machine backups, its good to use a drive that has at least twice the storage capacity of your Mac. Choose About This Mac and click the Storage tab. To see storage information about your Mac, click the Apple menu in the top-left of your screen. You should not proceed to making a backup copy of Mac OS X Tiger if you are not the owner of the original copy. To see the size of a specific file or folder, click it once and then press Command-I. Press copy now, go and have a cup of coffee while you wait for it to copy all your files, perhaps up to an hour or so. Use Disk Utility to restore OS X Base System to USB (see image below) 16. NOTE:This short guide is for personal use only. Select your Macintosh HD in the left menu, select your new firewire drive in the right one, select ‘backup all files’. Im here about trying to get MacOS Sierra running on a Dell Precision Tower. Next, go to Disk Utitlity, click on the new external FireWire hard drive and File: New -> Disk Image from Disk(x). On my G4 tower, my iBook hard drive popped up as an external drive. My iBook rebooted and had a FireWire screensaver pop up. Assign a name to your image (I dubbed it Mac OS X Backup Copy for this "demo") and choose the location where you want your image saved.Ħ- Hit "save" and good ol' Disk Utility will start creating your image of Mac OS X Tiger (it's going to take a while depending on your system's abilities, so be patient if the process is slow).īurning your backup copy of Mac OS X Tigerġ- Lock the Mac OS X Tiger Backup image - right click / ctrl click on the image, and tick / check "locked."Ģ- Mount the Mac OS X Tiger backup image.ģ- Now you will need Disk Utility again so launch it once more.Ĥ- With Disk Utility in front of you and a quality DVD-R in hand (re-writable works just as well, in case you want to test it out), browse your way to where you've saved the Tiger Image (the Mac OS X Backup Copy).ĥ- Click (once) on the Tiger image in the right pane in Disk Utility.Ħ- Hit "Burn" in the Disk Utility toolbar.ħ- Insert the writable / re-writable DVD in your drive and give Disk Utility the go-ahead to burn. Plug in a FireWire cable and hook it up to another Mac running OS X. Leave image format and encryption to "compressed" and "none" respectively.
Click it once.Ĥ- On the Disk Utility toolbar, click new image.ĥ- A dialog box should appear prompting you to specify the name of the image, the image format, encryption and, of course, the place where you want it saved on your computer.
#Make backup image of mac os for hackintosh install#
You will go through two main steps - the first: creating the Mac OS X image the second: burning the image on an empty, writable disc.ġ- Grab that Mac OS X Tiger copy and feed it to your Macģ- In the left pane of Disk Utility, Mac OS X Install DVD will appear. This short guide details the steps to making a bootable copy of Mac OS X Tiger. That's why, as a Mac user, it is always a wise choice to make a backup copy of Mac OS X. Often are the times when even your original Mac OS X installation disc fails to do its bit.
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