[Cube] A problem after cloning

Ken Johnson kr-johnson at comcast.net
Mon Nov 8 12:52:22 PST 2004


Thanks,  I'll give it a try.

Ken


On Nov 8, 2004, at 3:27 PM, Michael W. Sumbera wrote:

> 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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