I don't know all the underlying stuff in OSX but I suspect that there
are a lot of preference settings that have Macintosh HD in them so even
though you booted off your Rescue drive, the internal drive is still
present and anything pointing to it still goes there. So if your current
documents path is Macintosh HD/users/YourName/Documents, since Recover
is a perfect copy, the default location to save a document will not be
on Recovery but instead be on Macintosh HD. How you fix that I don't
know. I never tried to boot off my backup drive, I simply used it to
restore back to a laptop that I had installed a new 750GB drive in. I
would just leave the drive names both as Macintosh HD which means which
ever one you boot from will be the 'real' Macintosh HD.
CB
On 5/27/12 6:24 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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