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  • February 24, 2012 at 8:17 am #381659
    JustAUser
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    So I am new to this nifty little program. I followed the instructions here – http://www.coolestguyplanet.net/create-an-image-of-os-x-lion-10-7-using-instadmg/ – and had no issues. My image was created just fine. I put the image on a USB drive (8 gig) and booted from my install DVD to get to the disk utility. I restore the image from my USB drive to my wiped HD. Reboot, nothing. The HD image doesn’t exist. It’s as if nothing was written. Tried this several times, even used the Lion recovery partition/disk utility. Same thing.

    What’s going on? Am I missing something here? I saw another thread about this issue and no answer/response was given. Any help is appreciated.

    February 26, 2012 at 2:38 am #381661
    bw38
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    When you say you put the image on your USB drive, what exactly do you mean?
    You copied the dmg file to your USB drive?
    You applied the dmg image to your entire USB drive and then tried to do a restore based on the USB drive rather than the DMG file?

    May sound simple, but just to make sure.
    When I copy the dmg file and simply apply it via Disk Utility, I make sure that the dmg file is what I’m ‘restoring from’ and pay close attention to the partition that will be the ‘destination’.
    I suppose you could also apply the dmg image to another harddrive and then restore from that harddrive to another harddrive. In all cases, it should just work.

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