[Cube] A problem after cloning

Michael W. Sumbera sumbera at mac.com
Mon Nov 8 12:27:15 PST 2004


Or, if you are using CCC, try SuperDuper! 
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22126

Having tried multiple times with CCC on a couple of different machines 
with results similar to what you describe, SuperDuper! worked 
successfully and easily first time out of the gate.


On Nov 8, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Laurie A Duncan wrote:

> First off, yes you can clone between different types of hardware. 
> Provided
> the OS version you are using is compatible with both (i.e. You can't 
> clone a
> 10.2 system, for example, to a machine that shipped with 10.3 or later)
>
> Second of all, if you are using Carbon Copy Cloner, you MUST reformat 
> the
> target disk prior to cloning the source over to it otherwise you will 
> get
> exactly the result you encountered. If you want it to be bootable, you 
> must
> completely reformat, with Disk Utility, then clone.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Laurie
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> On 11/8/04 1:01 PM, "David Lambourn" <David.Lambourn at blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>> I recently had exactly your problem, and I came to see that it was
>> caused in the same way.  I agree with Sean and Luis - you are unlikely
>> to rid yourself of that problem without re-installing and updating -
>> preferably with the combined updaters.
>>
>> David.
>>
>> On 8 Nov 2004, at 17:36, Ken Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I recently cloned one mac to another.  Afterwards, the clone will not
>>> start.  It gets through most of the startup stuff, but then gets 
>>> stuck
>>> at the end with the message "Waiting for Apple File Service" or 
>>> "Login
>>> Window" on the startup progress bar screen.
>>>
>>> I have tried re-cloning, this time erasing the target directories
>>> before copying, but get the same results.  Any ideas?



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