Comments on: Fixing Disk Utility image restore

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:46:00 +0000

Um… Never mind. I was able to use dd to write the image back to my flash drive.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:22:07 +0000

I think I’m missing something. Perhaps it works different on Lion?

Here’s what command I used:
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sudo asr restore –noverify –source /Users/user1/Documents/disk1.dmg –target /dev/disk2s1 –erase
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Here’s the output:
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Validating target…done
Validating source…
Could not detect format of volume on device “”
Could not validate source – Invalid argument
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Any idea? Thanks.

By: Pat Skinner

Pat Skinner — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:12:59 +0000

@Drake: Glad you got it sorted out.

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:11:57 +0000

I got it… same as @Grac. I didn’t read the other comments…

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:10:46 +0000

What do I do?
I entered:
sudo asr -noverify -source /Volumes/UBUNTU -target /Users/DrakeAustinRehfeld/Desktop/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso

I got:
asr: unrecognized option `-source /Volumes/UBUNTU’
Usage: asr
is one of the following:
asr help | version
asr restore –source –target []
asr restore –source asr:/// –file []
asr server –source –config []
asr imagescan –source [--filechecksum] [--nostream] [--SHA1]

By: Matthew Drake

Matthew Drake — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:30:49 +0000

Can I use this to restore Windows on my bootcamp partition?
Disk Utility worked fine for the Mac side, but it won’t even scan the Windows .dmg or .cdr (cannot find source: invalid argument).
I’ve tried using the Windows native Recovery option, but it doesn’t see the .dmg or the .cdr either.
If anyone has any help, please!

thanks

By: Pat Skinner

Pat Skinner — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:06:08 +0000

Glad you got it sorted out @Grac.

By: Grac

Grac — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:03:32 +0000

Ok. Got t working. I was pasting examples from the comments but it looks like “-restore” parameter was missing (at least in my case). So the path should be:

sudo asr –restore –noverify –source /Volumes/xxx/osx_leopard_snow.dmg –target /Volumes/osxleopardsnow

Copying files as I write this. Fingers crossed. I’m a Terminal novice btw so I might be talking nonsense.

By: Grac

Grac — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:40:09 +0000

So..I get this error:

asr: Unrecognized verb “–noverify”
Usage: asr
is one of the following:
asr help | version
asr restore –source –target []
asr restore –source asr:/// –file []
asr server –source –config []
asr imagescan –source [--filechecksum] [--nostream] [--SHA1]

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

By: Lancelot_dt

Lancelot_dt — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:50:28 +0000

This solution worked perfectly, many thanks!!!