Sarah, you know what, that's not a half bad idea. I didn't even think about trying to eject the macintosh hd internal disk to see if it would let me.
Right now, I'm hooked back up to my workstation, as I got some ProTools stuff I gotta do tonight, but next time, maybe later on tonight, I'll give that a try and report back, my findings.
Chris.----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 6:38 PM Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Bizarre Problem with Carbon Copy ClonerNo 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. ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list.The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is://www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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