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Authored by: mnewman on Apr 23, '02 05:59:54PM

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.

Carbon Copy Cloner seemed to be doing its work, but since the process looked like it was going to take an hour or so, I went out for a run. When I got back, the copy process seemed to be finished, but there was a dialog box informing me that I had entered an incorrect password. The only password I entered was the Administrative password asked for at the beginning of the process. It seemed to have been accepted at that time. I have no idea where this dialog box came from.

I dismissed the dialog and CCC reported that it was "blessing" the target volume. In the middle of this CCC unexpectedly quit. (I sent the Console log file to the author.)

I went to the startup pane of the preferences panel and sure enough, both the OS/9 and OS/X folders showed up as possible startup folders. I picked the cloned OS/X folder and restarted the machine. No joy.

I removed the FireWire drive and restarted from the internal volume and this worked.

Examining the cloned drive indicates that everything was copied, but it will not boot.

If you look at the CCC site you will see that bug reports include similar problems with this piece of software. It seems to work for many, but not for some. The reasons for failure remain unclear.



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If only - Me Too
Authored by: mnewman on Apr 24, '02 02:47:54PM

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).



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