> 1. Did you run MacJanitor 1.2 on the source disk 1st No, didn't know it was a requirement. > 2. Did you Boot from a CD or another drive and run the Disk Utility > and have > it run the first aid on your primary drive? No, again, wasn't aware that should be done. > 3. After doing steps 1 & 2 boot from the primary drive and run the Disk > Utility again and ERASE the secondary drive. I don't want to erase the secondary drive. I keep a lot of files there. All I want to do is create a backup drive image, not clone from one drive to another. > 4. I assume you have the Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3, run it and see what > happens. Used 2.2 and 2.3, same results. > You seem to have something hosed on your primary drive that is causing > CCC > to barf. Wonder how that can be on two different computers with one just having had the 10.2.8 run on it? Thanks for the advice, Lavode