[mac4theblind] Re: created a bootable installer of Mountain Lion with SuperDuper

  • From: Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:20:57 +0000

Sarah, thanks for confirming what format I need to go for.

Daniel
On 1 Nov 2013, at 19:08, Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You want to format as mac osx extended journaled . don’t worry about the 
> partition as it’s already set.  I can’t remember all of the formats you can 
> have a drive be in as there are a lot, but the one you want is mac osx 
> extended journaled.
> 
> Take care.
> On Nov 1, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Edward, or is it Lew I'm not sure which. lol 
>> Don't worry, I'll definitely make sure I'll have a backup of all my 
>> documents and alike before going ahead.
>> A couple of things if I may ask. When you say format the HD do you mean the 
>> Macintosh hard drive? Just to be clear and secondly, what formats choices 
>> are there to choose from I'm just cureious and I'm making an educated guess 
>> but I bet my money on that it will be Mac OSX extended gernaled to format 
>> the hard drive too.
>> 
>> My primary purpose of making the backup of ML is because I want to go to the 
>> Mavericks root by just the update method. Now, I know you advise people to 
>> go through the clean install path but I just want to update and if anything 
>> is wrong with Mavericks or I find it too buggy with Voiceover with my ML 
>> backup would I be able to successfully downgrade back to Mountain Lion? If 
>> so, how would one do this assuming I've made my ML bootable USB 8GB Sea-Gate 
>> flash drive that I brought the other day. From Argos by the way. lol       
>> I've never done a clean install or re-install of a previous Mac OS before so 
>> it is all new to me.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> On 1 Nov 2013, at 17:05, Edward Lewis Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi daniel.
>>> 
>>> first off, ensure you’ve backed up everything. glad that SuperDuper works 
>>> for you. it’s a useful product and part of my toolbox.
>>> 
>>> open up system preferences and go to Startup Disk. you should see your new 
>>> bootable volume listed. if so, select it and tab to restart. now you can 
>>> continue reformatting your HDD using disk utility within the installer then 
>>> installing your OS. it is important to format the HDD because otherwise you 
>>> will end up with corrupt data.
>>> 
>>> lew
>>> 
>>> On 1 Nov 2013, at 04:50 pm, Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all, I am please to report that I think I've managed to create a 
>>>> bootable Mountain Lion with the release I purchased last year with my 
>>>> Apple ID that I made a backup to my external hard drive with.
>>>> I did this with SuperDuper and WOW!!! It was like so easy to do! Had a bit 
>>>> of trouble understanding what was to come 1st the source or the location. 
>>>> I finally figured it out with a youtube video though. lol
>>>> 
>>>> Don't know what to do after this though so any guidance forth coming would 
>>>> be fantastic  but I'm glad that I've gotten the 1st step completed! :)
>>>> 
>>>> Hope everyone had a fabulous halloween!
>>>> 
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