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"I bought a Hitachi X250 USB drive, partitioned it into 2 partitions in disk
utility. Gave each a name and then
started to clone my main hard drive to one. Several minutes later the I-mac
ejected the drives and does not recognize
the USB drive anymore."
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"started to clone" ... using CarbonCopyCloner? Check its log for errors. Also
check the system.log for errors.
Reboot, launch Console.app and set it to view the system.log. Then plug in the
external drive, and observe what messages are thrown into Console's window.
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Yes it was Carbon Copy Cleaner. I think I will need a checklist to do both
steps...a little over my head...
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Check [CarbonCopyCloner] log for errors. Also check the system.log Launch
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app
Tell it to show the log list (View/Show Log List).Click the arrow to open
/Library/Logs/.Select CCC.log
That is CarbonCopyCloner's log. Therein it should have some errors that
indicate what happened. Copy the log and paste it into your reply here (it
shouldn't be too long). system.log is done the same way, sortof - if the
information is in the recent log, then the alias at the top of the list will
work. If it's been a few days, the system maintenance scripts have rolled over
the log, so you'll have to open /var/logs/ and scroll down until you see the
list of system.log files. ...But for now just send us the info in CCC.log.
That's might be enough. Console.app is a *read-only* browser for the system
logs. Peruse all you want; you can do no damage there. The views are all
"live". That means, for example, if you set it to view your current system.log,
then go do something that causes messages / errors to be thrown, you'll seem
them show up immediately in Console's window.
Reboot, launch Console.app and set it to view the system.log. Then plug in the
external drive, and
observe what messages are thrown into Console's window.
Per above info. Start with a clean reboot with the external drive NOT
connected. Launch Console. Select that system.log. Then plug in the external
and watch what shows up.
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Text of Two CCC logs shown:
CCC.o.log-
Bootability: The target volume will not boot this computer because PowerPC
Macintoshes cannot boot from USB devices.
Cloning method: Backup everything
Delete items on target that aren't on the source: No
08/06 12:08:49 The target volume has ownership enabled.
08/06 12:08:49 ACLs are not enabled on the source volume, not enabling them on
the target volume.
08/06 12:08:49 Authenticating...
08/06 12:09:09 Initiating synchronization engine...
08/06 12:09:10 Cloning...
08/06 12:25:00 [INFO] Volume unmounted: "/Volumes/Back-Up"
08/06 12:25:00 [INFO] Volume unmounted: "/Volumes/Clone"
08/06 12:25:00 Aborting clone, target disk has disappeared
08/06 12:25:01 812.74 MiB [Please see
http://www.bombich.com/software/docs/CCC/en.lproj/troubleshooting/log.html for
a comment about this figure]
and
CCC.log-
12:58:18 Rolled logfile because the log file was not writable
08/06 12:58:18 Launched Carbon Copy Cloner [3.3.3] on Version 10.4.11 (Build
8S165)
08/06 12:59:13 Verifying route to "help.bombich.com"
08/06 12:59:13 Route to host established (help.bombich.com) [-r-----].
08/06 13:52:54 Launched Carbon Copy Cloner [3.3.3] on Version 10.4.11 (Build
8S165)
08/07 11:59:53 Launched Carbon Copy Cloner [3.3.3] on Version 10.4.11 (Build
8S165)
08/07 12:00:20 Verifying route to "help.bombich.com"
08/07 12:00:20 Route to host established (help.bombich.com) [-r-----].
08/07 12:00:55 Verifying route to "help.bombich.com"
08/07 12:00:55 Route to host established (help.bombich.com) [-r-----].
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