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

[Scott]

On Mar 18, 2006, at 1:01 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?
>


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Did you format the external drive as HFS+? Out of the box, FW drives  
are usually FAT32.

-- 
Scott