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If anyone manages to get this to work cloning to a firewire drive, please post. I always get either a fatal openlistfolder error or a "successful" clone that's about %30 of the original.
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i've done it. many times. here at work we tested it out going from internal drive to firewire, then from firewire to firewire, then from firewire to another internal mac hard drive. Each time we did it we were able to boot from the copy. it was quite cool. as for how we did it? im not quite sure, we used Carbon Copy Cloner, and we didnt have to do anything tricky, just out of sheer paranoia we only had the Finder and Carbon Copy Cloner running.
Worked Fine for me...
Imac G3 500 with External Maxtor Firewire 80. A look at my original startup disk with Disk Utility revealed it was a bit corrupt, so booting from the Firewire drive let me fix it. So now I can sleep soundly knowing my weeks of customizing X are not at risk. Awesome.
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I try every version of this that comes out and also have never had any luck. Always craps out and rarely tells me why - often I will just come back and the app has disappeared. Everyone seems to have such luck with this - but I can't depend on it enough and I don't have time to babysit it.
If only - Me Too
I also have been unable to get Carbon Copy Cloner to produce a bootable volume on an external FireWire drive. In this case I'm trying to clone the single volume on my iBook which has about 7GB to an external FireWire drive that has two partitions. The external drive is brand new and the partitions were created with the OS/X disk utility. The target volume is 10GB.
If only - Me Too
Based on my bug report and bug reports from others the author of Carbon Copy Cloner has rewritten some routines. The latest beta worked for me and produced a bootable clone on an external FireWire volume. I'm sure that when more reports on in the author will release and updated version. In addition to fixing the boot problem, the beta version loads faster and the process of deleting items from the "to be copied" list has been improved (faster, selection of multiple items enabled).
If only..failed
I tried cc to copy to my firewire drive, the first time it tried and failed, the 2nd to 6th time the app crashed as soon as the first volume was selected!
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I have used Carbon Copy Cloner. When cloning the whole drive partition, I too get a similar error. But it basically says it can't find the file. However, it hasn't prevented me from creating a working boot partition. I haven't checked file numbers, but overall size seems intact. My copy goals are 1) boot system (successful) and copy of my user area (seems intact). Everything else I can reinstall if necessary (apps, etc.)
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I have used it several times to not only clone to a FW disk but to another laptop (for use in our computer lab)...I also had many problems and was unsuccessful until I read somewhere that the trick was to first use erase drive in Disk Utility (located in the Utilities Folder inside the Applications Folder in OS X) to format the target drive first and be sure to check the "install OS 9 drivers"...and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the drive. Hope this helps...
No Probs here
I've been using CCC for a while with no problems at all. Backups or clones have always been to La Cie Pocket drives using Firewire. I can only guess that the problems mentioned above may be something to do with the drive itself - I always do a fall erase of the backup drive before starting which may help.
CCC works everytime to Firewire for me
]?d OSX to firewire (VST Thin) at least six times and made bootable mirrors everytime. Cloned also to Powerbook expansion bay hard drives several times, always successful. I always run DW2.1, TTP3.0.6 and SpeedDisk on the OSX system 1st, always clone to a partition, erase the partition with disk utility first, check all CCC options and delete any TTP protection files before cloning. I also shut down all apps except finder and don't attempt any other activities during clone (about 10 minutes).
CCC works everytime to Firewire for me
i am new to OSX. Why can't you just drag/drop the contents of the drive to another drive. Wouldn't this make an exact copy?
Invisibles and permissions...
In short, invisible files and those for which your normal user doesn't have permissions will make drag and drop a no-go in OS X.
CCC works everytime to Firewire for me
Works fine for me too. I have copied my iBook drive to three other drives with no problems. I have used it to get OSX on some old iMacs I have that have non-bootable replacement CD drives.
CCC works until tonite!
I had my 1st CCC failure cloning an OS9 volume last night where the process halted at 70% completion with an error message. The file that locked up the clone was an invisible Norton File Saver file.
If I can do it
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