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

[Daniel Carter]

oops!

just noticed that the external drive _is_ already formatted as HFS+.

Daniel


at 9:40 PM, 3/18/06, Daniel Carter wrote:

>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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