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Title:
Problems cloning a hard drive with both disk utility and superduper
Text:
Hi All,
Although I have successfully done it before, this time when cloning from an internal 320GB to a firewire 500GB using disk utility, resulted in my MacBook Pro not booting. It starts to boot, and then there's a weird symbol on the grey screen like a national speed limit road sign (struckthrough O) ?!
I noticed that the partion map scheme in disk utility on the cloned disk says 'Unknown', and it's GUID on the source drive, so maybe that's part of the problem?
Anyway, I got superduper instead, and re-did the clone but the result was identical. I didn't try to wipe the destination disk before I did superduper though - should I need to?
Any ideas? Would be much appreciated! If not, I'll try a new snow leopard install and restore from time machine, but would be nice not to have to do that.
Cheers,
Phil
Device:
MacBook Pro
Tags:
| booting, |
| booting, |
Status:
open
Edit by bac,
Title:
Problems cloning a hard drive with both disk utility and superduper
Text:
Hi All,
Although I have successfully done it before, this time when cloning from an internal 320GB to a firewire 500GB using disk utility, resulted in my MacBook Pro not booting. It starts to boot, and then there's a weird symbol on the grey screen like a national speed limit road sign (struckthrough O) ?!
I noticed that the partion map scheme in disk utility on the cloned disk says 'Unknown', and it's GUID on the source drive, so maybe that's part of the problem?
Anyway, I got superduper instead, and re-did the clone but the result was identical. I didn't try to wipe the destination disk before I did superduper though - should I need to?
Any ideas? Would be much appreciated! If not, I'll try a new snow leopard install and restore from time machine, but would be nice not to have to do that.
Cheers,
Phil
Device:
MacBook Pro
Tags:
| booting, |
| booting, |
Status:
open
Edit by Nat Welch,
Title:
Text:
| Hi All, |
| Although I have |
| Although I have |
| I noticed that the partion map scheme in disk utility on the cloned disk says 'Unknown', and it's GUID on the source drive, so maybe that's part of the problem? |
| Anyway, I got superduper instead, and re-did the clone but the result was identical. I didn't try to wipe the |
| Anyway, I got superduper instead, and re-did the clone but the result was identical. I didn't try to wipe the |
| Any ideas? Would be much appreciated! If not, I'll try a new snow leopard install and restore from time machine, but would be nice not to have to do that. |
| Cheers, |
| Phil |
Device:
MacBook Pro
Tags:
booting, guid, hdd upgrade, partition map scheme
Status:
open
Original post by filchambers,
Title:
problems cloning hdd with both disk utility and superduper
Text:
Hi All,
Although I have succesfully done it before, this time when cloning from an internal 320GB to a firewire 500GB using disk utility, resulted in my MacBook Pro not booting. It starts to boot, and then there's a weird symbol on the grey screen like a national speed limit road sign (struckthrough O) ?!
I noticed that the partion map scheme in disk utility on the cloned disk says 'Unknown', and it's GUID on the source drive, so maybe that's part of the problem?
Anyway, I got superduper instead, and re-did the clone but the result was identical. I didn't try to wipe the dest disk before I did superduper though - should I need to?
Any ideas? Would be much appreciated! If not, I'll try a new snow leopard install and restore from time machine, but would be nice not to have to do that.
Cheers,
Phil
Device:
MacBook Pro
Tags:
booting, guid, hdd upgrade, partition map scheme
Status:
open