Regardless what I did, nothing worked. I finally just bought Superduper.
It works a million and one times better, in my opinion!
Chris.
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From: "Chris Blouch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: Bizarre problem with Carbon Copy Cloner
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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