Hello! I have an odd (at least to me) problem. I have installed a couple of new hard drives in my MDD G4 (1.25 GHz, OS 10.5.8). They all mount just fine. My usual boot drive is an OWC 115 GB SSD. I have an old drive in the machine, a Seagate 200 GB, with 2 partitions (call them volumes A and B) Volume B has a different collection of stuff on it, also with OS 10.5.8. This volume also boots just fine. I cloned Volume B onto a partition of a third internal drive, a WD 320 GB, call that Volume C. My idea in doing this was to copy the stuff onto the larger drive and retire the 200 GB. I used SuperDuper to do the cloning, which is supposed to give you a bootable clone. The problem: The cloned volume of B on volume C will not "show up" as bootable either in the Startup Disk pref pane or in the Startup Manager when I press Option at startup. I have run this 3 times now, and once I did so using the SSD as startup drive, and once using volume B (the drive to be cloned) as startup drive. Super Duper reports a successful copy each time, and in each case the cloned volume mounts just fine.
So what gives? Why won't the cloned volume of the WD 320 (Partition C) show up as bootable? I'm reluctant to retire the 200 GB drive without being sure I have a good (bootable) copy. Thanks! Rob Johansen -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
