Re: Cloning Hangs G4 Quicksilver 867
On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:12 PM, yersi...@cybernex.net wrote: > > Hiya Listers, > > With all the wonderful praise all over this list and the Net in > general > I've seen for both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper, I'm totally and > completely shocked to say I'm having this problem -- I can't clone > with > either one of these programs, and worse, they crash the Finder. > > The Mac is a G4 Quicksilver 867 running Tiger (10.4.9) with two > internal > hard drives I want to clone to two partitions of a new OWC Mercury > Elite > Pro 500 GB external USB/Firewire drive. Both CCC and SuperDuper > hang up > in the cloning process -- the cloning process itself stops prematurely > (well, CCC got through one drive once but said there were errors so I > don't trust it) and then the Mac itself too (I have to reboot the > Mac to > get rid of the beachballs because "relaunching" the Finder kills it). > > I was having a problem getting the external HD to show up on my > iBook -- > I took that to the G-Books list and while it's OK now, I don't really > know why, and Kris Tilford suggested over there a possible firmware > issue (my OWC drive having the 934 chipset) with THAT. Well, could > I be > having a firmware problem interfering with the ability to clone? > > Or am I just about the only Mac user in existence who can't use CCC or > SuperDuper? I would start running Disk Verify in Disk Utilities. I'd do it on both drives but the source is the most important. If that doesn't give you a clean bill of health then you need to fix that first. I have used CCC over 1,000 times and only had occasional trouble with it (I can't recall off hand what problems I had). --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Cloning Hangs G4 Quicksilver 867
On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:12 PM, yersi...@cybernex.net wrote: > > Hiya Listers, > > With all the wonderful praise all over this list and the Net in > general > I've seen for both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper, I'm totally and > completely shocked to say I'm having this problem -- I can't clone > with > either one of these programs, and worse, they crash the Finder. > > > Or am I just about the only Mac user in existence who can't use CCC or > SuperDuper? > > Thanks, > > ~Yersinia. I had trouble with CCC. I had a corrupted file that would either hang CCC or crash the system. Once I tried a a few times, i noticed that the hang was on the same file. I trashed that one file and everything went fine. So see if you can see where it is hanging or crashing. That might be the problem. Len --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Cloning Hangs G4 Quicksilver 867
Hiya Listers, With all the wonderful praise all over this list and the Net in general I've seen for both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper, I'm totally and completely shocked to say I'm having this problem -- I can't clone with either one of these programs, and worse, they crash the Finder. The Mac is a G4 Quicksilver 867 running Tiger (10.4.9) with two internal hard drives I want to clone to two partitions of a new OWC Mercury Elite Pro 500 GB external USB/Firewire drive. Both CCC and SuperDuper hang up in the cloning process -- the cloning process itself stops prematurely (well, CCC got through one drive once but said there were errors so I don't trust it) and then the Mac itself too (I have to reboot the Mac to get rid of the beachballs because "relaunching" the Finder kills it). I was having a problem getting the external HD to show up on my iBook -- I took that to the G-Books list and while it's OK now, I don't really know why, and Kris Tilford suggested over there a possible firmware issue (my OWC drive having the 934 chipset) with THAT. Well, could I be having a firmware problem interfering with the ability to clone? Or am I just about the only Mac user in existence who can't use CCC or SuperDuper? Thanks, ~Yersinia. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
