[mac4theblind] Re: Bizarre Problem with Carbon Copy Cloner
- From: Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 16:01:39 +0100
I don't know much about this stuff but sometimes as someone once said to me,
"The obvious things are over looked or, not thought of."
LOL
Daniel
On 28 May 2012, at 01:14, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> That's an excellent idea, you guys. I don't have a clue why I didn't think
> to try that.
>
> Chris.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Panarese" <jpanarese@xxxxxx>
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> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 6:40 PM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Bizarre Problem with Carbon Copy Cloner
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>> Right. When you are booted into the clone, see if you can eject Macintosh
>> HD.
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>> On May 27, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>
>>> No it's booting in the rescue disk. I think they name it as the regular
>>> start up volume. I niticed that with mine as well. if you can eject your
>>> real hd whist your rescue disk is booted in to then you are infect booted
>>> in to your rescue disk.
>>> On May 27, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
>>>
>>>> Last night, I connected my external USB 300GB drive to my macbook, as I
>>>> figured I would download and install a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner. I wnet
>>>> though and read probably 85-90 percent of the documentation that comes
>>>> with the app. Following the directions, I got the internal Macintosh HD
>>>> volume correctly cloned, by the looks of it. I did make sure to partition
>>>> the external drive with the guid scheme, 1 partition, mac extended
>>>> journaled. This is precisely what the help files said to do.
>>>>
>>>> My copy of Snow Leopard definitely! sees that OSX 10.6.8 is on the
>>>> external drive, and when I look in my Finder, everything seems to be
>>>> properly intact. The bottom line is, the clone seemed to work perfectly.
>>>> Now, here's the catch though.
>>>>
>>>> When I go to system preferences, then to startup disk, I definitely do see
>>>> both volumes as startup disks. However, if I try to set the startup disk
>>>> to my rescue volume, which by the way, I did title that volume as
>>>> "Rescue"... If I then hit restart, the system boots perfectly, but looking
>>>> under the Apple Menu at About this Mac, I notice that it says the startup
>>>> disk is Macintosh HD, not! Rescue. This leads me to think it's still!
>>>> somehow booting from the internal drive, not from my external rescue disk.
>>>> I even with sighted help, hit the option key and held it down at startup,
>>>> and tabbed to the rescue volume, and then hit return.
>>>>
>>>> Just to really! verify a test if I was booted to the external drive but
>>>> getting a false reporting, on the supposed external startup disk, I went
>>>> into Text Edit, and created a file called integrity.txt. In this file,
>>>> which by the way, I saved in my Documents folder, I simply just wrote:
>>>> "This is a test." Once the file was correctly saved, I went back to
>>>> system prefs, startup disk, and switched it back to the internal Macintosh
>>>> HD volume. I then restarted, and disconnected the external drive from the
>>>> USB port.
>>>>
>>>> Once booted, I went to the documents folder. Sure enough, there was my
>>>> integrity.txt file. That tells me I saved it on the internal volume,
>>>> which means I was definitely not booted to the external drive. Had I
>>>> been, that file now would not have shown up. So, I am totally perplexed.
>>>> The documentation states I believe it's in the section about preparing
>>>> your backup which is underneath the getting started section, that Western
>>>> Digital drives with enclosures are known to do this, and not boot. My
>>>> drive is not in an enclosure, for one thing, and for two, it states that
>>>> if you're on a PPC, you will not be able to boot from USB. This isn't the
>>>> case for me either, as I have a mid 2010 13 inch stocked white
>>>> polli-carbon macbook which came shipped with Snow Leopard. I made at that
>>>> time nor now absolutely no customizations. This is totally a stocked
>>>> system in ment tip top condition.
>>>>
>>>> When I looked past the presets in CCC, where I had it said to temporarily
>>>> archive etc. just as the docs advised to do, I saw no errors the whole way
>>>> through the cloning process that would indicate that the volume would not
>>>> be bootable.
>>>>
>>>> So, yeah, I don't know if the Efi is just not correctly seeing things, or
>>>> what the heck the deal is. I can put a bootable OSX DVD in my drive, and
>>>> at start up hold down the C key, and that works great! I also have
>>>> another external drive, which has an installation of Lion on it. If I
>>>> plug that in, I can either go to the boot menu, with the option key at
>>>> startup, and boot to it fine, or I can switch over to it through system
>>>> prefs, and that, too works fine. I've tried both USB ports as well, just
>>>> in case one was falty somehow, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The
>>>> two ports are working properly. I've also repaired permissions on the
>>>> external disk with disk utility, and even have done a disk repair on the
>>>> volume. That did no good either.
>>>>
>>>> I'm almost at the point of firing off an e-mail to tech support, but I
>>>> wanted first to see if any of you had any ideas.
>>>>
>>>> Both the drives I mentioned in this message that were external are both
>>>> Seagate drives. Neither of them have enclosures.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>>
>>>> Chris.
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