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

[Daniel Carter]

at 7:26 PM, 3/18/06, Al Poulin wrote:
>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
>Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, 
>proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.

at 7:26 PM, 3/18/06, Al Poulin wrote:

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

thanks to both of you.

no, I didn't format external drive as HFS+. I'll do that now, before 
I do anything else.

Daniel



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