[X4U] Copy installed Leopard

Paul Moortgat paul.moortgat at pandora.be
Thu Jan 31 08:32:19 PST 2008


It worked for Tiger (Superduper) to that external HD which I then  
upgraded.
I only work with 3 disks.  One with Tiger and (now an empty one)  
inside and that external with Leopard on.
I used used CCC to copy Leopard to the internal one as CCC should do.   
It's made to do that.

Paul Moortgat

On 31 Jan 2008, at 16:57, Matt Gregory wrote:

> This is what I've sent to Mike about the latest CCC:
>
> I tried to copy an external ATA drive containing leopard to an
> internal SATA drive to have Leopard there.
> It didn't worked.  The internal one wouldn't startup.  It took 5 hours
> to copy and I never got a warning or error.
>
>
> When I read the above it sounds like the external drive may have  
> been created by cloning a different machine than the one you're  
> trying to restore it onto.  Is that the case?  I don't know, but I  
> doubt that would work as it sounds like a great way to steal OS X.   
> Not saying that's what you're trying to do, as you clearly mentioned  
> you have the install disc.  I mention it because it makes sense as a  
> reason why it would copy but not startup.
>
> matt.



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