[X4U] Copy installed Leopard

Paul Moortgat paul.moortgat at pandora.be
Sat Feb 2 09:34:42 PST 2008


Michael,

Because I formatted the second internal HD from the install DVD I now  
can format that empty HD as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" which I  
always have done on this G5.
And how do you "accidentally" format the wrong partition?

Paul Moortgat

On 02 Feb 2008, at 16:29, Michael Elliott wrote:

> Paul
> Just confirming, since I am coming late to his thread, but you're  
> sure that you reformatted the drive with the correct partition map?  
> Since Intel machines were introduced, its now possible to  
> accidentally use the "wrong" partition map. If you do, an install of  
> MacOS will go fine but it will never boot, even if you're copying a  
> bootable image from another disk.
>
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> On Jan 31, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Paul Moortgat  
> <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
>
>> Last night I started with the OSX DVD, formatted the internal HD  
>> (because I couldn't format the HD from Disk Utility) and used CCC,  
>> tried to restart with the internal HD with the same NO GO result.
>>
>> Paul Moortgat
>>
>> On 30 Jan 2008, at 01:19, John Baltutis wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/29/08, Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I tried to copy my external ATA disk with Leopard installed on it  
>>>> to
>>>> an internal SATA disk via CCC because SuperDuper isn't ready for
>>>> Leopard.
>>>> It didn't work.  CCC can't do it.  Any other program that will do  
>>>> it?
>>>
>>> That would be a first. Post your problem to the CCC  
>>> Troubleshooting forum at
>>> <http://forums.bombich.com/viewforum.php?f=12> and provide the  
>>> sailent details
>>> about machine, OS, and configuration. We'll see if we can fix the  
>>> problem,
>>> since I've routinely cloned from external HDs to insternal ones  
>>> and vice versa
>>> using Leopard w/o issue.
>>>
>>> --Bombich Forums moderator
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