[X-Newbies] Re: OS 10.1.5 to Tiger(?) (now having difficulties starting up from bootable clone)

[Al Poulin]

On Mar 18, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Daniel Carter wrote:

> embarrassed to say that I've still not installed that blessed Tiger. I 
> finally got around to trying to back up by cloning my hard drive (with 
> Carbon Copy Cloner) to a Seagate firewire drive, but am unable to 
> start up from the clone. on startup the smiling face icon turns into a 
> kind of fractured folder, if I'm remembering correctly. the system 
> folder in the clone does not have X on it, as does the system folder 
> in my main internal drive. anyone know what the problem is?
>

If you believe your external drive is set up correctly, hardware wise, 
perhaps you could try cloning with something called SuperDuper.  But 
first, you could make a disk image of a known good bootable CD or DVD 
of your OS and putting that on the external drive to test that.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Al Poulin
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