[mac4theblind] Re: Bizarre Problem with Carbon Copy Cloner
- From: John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 18:40:17 -0400
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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