Archived/ Erased and cloned drive won't boot.

In the process of adding bootcamp, I was prompted to backup my system drive and erase/ reinstall so the drive would be one extended journal.
I backed up to external firewire drive once via Time Machine and a second time via CCC just to be sure I had the entire drive. - It shows up as a time machine icon plus a mac hd 10.5.6 internal icon when the drive is connected - as if there are two drives on one without the partition.
I changed the external to be the boot drive to check the backup worked - which it does.
I then proceeded to erase my system drive and copy across the backed up clone.
This appears to have been done, yet when I remove the external drive to let the internal boot, the machine just keeps going to grey screen with the pending wheel, then restarts. I presume the internal drive is not being recognised.
I have to boot from either the OS X Leopard DVD or the external which is a perfect clone.
Help!
Do I need to recopy the drive? am I missing something?
Message was edited by: royalboob

royalboob wrote:
I then proceeded to erase my system drive and copy across the backed up clone.
What do you mean by "copy across the backed up clone"? Did you clone the erased drive from the backup or do something else? Just copying files will not create a viable startup drive. You must use the clone as the source & the erased drive as the target, using the same or a functionally identical cloning process as you used to create the clone,. The only difference is the swapped source & target.

Similar Messages

  • Cloned Drive Won't Boot

    Hi All,
    I have an external 320 GB drive that I use for backup for my Pismo and my 12" Al. It's in a Mercury On The Go firewire enclosure that usually works fine.
    I use SuperDuper to clone my drives.
    For some reason, the cloned drive of my 12"AL won't mount. I duped it again using SuperDuper, and it says it did it completely and it's supposed to be bootable. But when I change Startup Disk to the external I just get the blue screen--no apple, no spinning gear, no dock, nothing.
    This was an expensive drive, and I want to have bootable backups. Anyone have an idea how to fix?
    Cheers,
    GB
    Message was edited by: gblunt99

    If the drive is only USB, it generally won't boot a PowerPC Mac running Mac OS X. You can exchange the hard drive case for one that has Firewire from http://www.macsales.com/ once you discover what type of internal drive is inside the USB case, if it is a USB drive. See this image if you don't know what Firewire looks like *
    Secondly, the clone will only boot reliably the machine and/or model and vintage machine the clone was made from (the latter, it is important for legal consideration that you have the right licenses for it).
    Partitioning a hard drive will allow you to create multiple clones, if there is enough room on the hard drive. For PowerPC Macs though the partitioning has to be Apple Partition Map. For Intel Macs, it has to be GUID. Here's a guide to partitioning:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61301
    If you have a mix of PowerPC and Intel Macs, this guide explains how to do both.
    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006061610374449
    - * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

  • My hard drive failed, has been replaced, and now it won't boot to CD.

    My hard drive failed, has been replaced, and now it won't boot to CD to install the OS package. It would boot for a while, get through the first cd of install and would stop randomly in the next install. I found out that the installation disk was cracked so I went out and purchased the Mac Box Set which includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09 under advisement from an associate at the local apple store. Now, I try installing this new OS disk and all I get is the apple logo without a spinning wheel for about 10 minutes and the computer restarts and does it again. I have tried booting from disk, holding c while starting up, and in safemode, holding shift while booting. Please help save my poor poor macbook!!!

    These errors look like corrupt or missing files that leopard requires. It sound like you need to start from scratch: format your drive, reload Leopard. I realize that this is probably what you are trying to do.
    If you cannot boot from install DVD and cannot successfully get into Safemode or Single usermode (due to a corrupt or incomplete install) then you will need another computer to assist you.
    If you can get it into Target Disk Mode and have another Mac you could plug it into that Mac and reformat it.
    If it will not go into TDM then you may need to take it out and put it into an external enclosure to plug into another Mac to format it.

  • My clone external hard drive won't boot - start up?

    Hi,
    I am selling my MacPro and need to clone its system drive for the new lap top I will buy soon. So I bought a new external 2TB HDD from OWC. I have found that this external HDD will not boot up, even though it says it is bootable, and appears in the Start Up prefs when I select it. It sppears on the desktop, doesn't make any weird clicking noises as well.
    I am using 10.6.8 OS X. The 2TB HDD has two partitions (created with DU), one is bootable (Mac OS X extended journaled), and the other is a regular HDD space for media etc. It is GUID. It has "Ownership" checked in the info box.
    I used CCC 3.4.4 and since this is 'hopefully' a one time deal, selected the 'Delete anything that doesn't exist on the source' setting. I cloned my system drive to the bootable space and had no problems with the transfer. Plenty of space to write all the files. I even made sure everything was checked in the 'source' window that a system drive might need. Everything was checked.
    I spoke with a representive at the OWC Sales company and checked that this HDD can be used as a bootable drive.
    I checked the connections: with external HDD with FW800, and Sata connectors. I have checked it with my Mac Book Pro as well. Same result. No boot.
    I really don't understand why this drive won't boot, since everything looks correct.
    Does anyone have any thoughts, suggestions, ideas for fixing this issue?
    Thanks
    M

    Not sure if you managed to get this issue resolved yet Marcus, but I too have a similar problem:
    Currently I'm upgrading from Leopard to Lion (via Snow Leopard) on both an iMac and MacBook Pro (both Intel), but before I proceed with the OSX upgrade I wanted to back everything up. Thus far I have partitioned an external firewire drive (G Drive - one that is bootable), and cloned each machine using Carbon Copy Cloner to it's own partition (both GUID). There is plenty of space left over on each partition.
    The issue - I can boot the OS X from the external drive on the MacBook Pro but not on the iMac.
    When I restart and hold down Option on the iMac the only drive that appears is the HDD, not the other two selectable drives that are visible if I boot up on the MacBook Pro. On the iMac in System Prefs > Startup Disc I can see all 3 drives but when I select it and restart, the machine freezes on the grey loading screen and goes no further.
    Not that it should make a difference, but there is a 3rd partition on the external drive that is currently empty (for extra storage).
    Any help is greatly appreciated - I can't find any relevant answers elsewhere. Thanks,
    Dan

  • MAC PRO HARD DRIVE won't boot

    HARD DRIVE won't boot past APPLE ICON, grey spinning wheel on grey screen. Tried using install discs, no go past the icon.
    Replace small battery inside? replace chips? Logic board replace as last resort.  Can't take it away from work at this point to an apple tech.
    Had just installed updates to snow leopard and was successful...but went to restart it...and this crap happened.
    Thanks for any help.
    MT1111
    < Edited by Host >

    I'll try that tomorrow. Thinking it could also be:
    1)  The PRAMM battery. found info on that they can wear out close to 5 years. This MAC PRO is close to that now.  And I use a lot of power on it.
    2) MAC PRO is plugged into a  SURGE PROTECTOR, instead of right into the wall outlet.
    3) Been doing a lot of FORCE QUITS and HARD BOOT -- unplugging it directly when it wouldn't shut down soon enough --  lately this past year.
    I just assumed that this MAC PRO with the XEON QUAD CORE etc., was a heavy duty enough NLE,
    that i wouldn't have these problems. It's not fully loaded with all the chips it can carry...and I don't have near enough external terabyte hard drives for storing video and audio files to edit. I've been storing wayyy too much
    on the internal hard dives and just have to stop that.
    I noticed these past few days that much of the LETTERING for hard drive icons and folders' titles
    were starting to look in OVERLAPPING of the lettering. That was my first hint that  something was up.

  • Main drive won't boot reliably

    If I have a duplicated ( via SuperDuper) external drive attached, the OS will boot from that drive, even if I have my main drive selected in prefs as the startup drive.
    If I disconnect the external drive, my mac will boot from DiskWarrior DVD, in the Superdrive.
    If I remove the disk, my drive gets me a flashing question mark.
    I have DiskWarriored and TechTooled and they pass the drive, yet all the above indicate that all is not well with my main drive.
    Yet in each case, if I start with 'Option' key pressed, my main drive appears in the list and will then boot happily and will run all day.
    Any ideas as to why the drive won't boot OSX straight away?
    tia
    peter

    good job on having firewire ports, you can run tiger.
    to upgrade the firmware, you need to install a harddrive that has OS 9 on it. doesn't matter if the drive is in that computer at the moment, it can be a friends that has it installed already. you just need a installation of OS 9. Connect it to the internet after its booted, run the software update, it'll reboot some times and some junk and do it for you. Be nice and give the hard drive back to whoever was nice enough to lend it to you. They are SUPER easy to swap.
    My impression of your hard drive is that it is failing its SMART crap. The problem with these things is that the heat they live with (cause of the proc and the crt in there, not to mention the psu) make them "stretch" as they work. you "can" dent the little disc/circle lookin part on the top of the hard drive with a hammer very lightly and sort of "force" it back in to a more optimal position for old age. Since i saw you just ordered a new hard drive from ebay (newegg would have been more trustworthy, ata 100 backwards compatability for the win), when you get that, put it in and come up with an OS 9 install disc. Gotta be one for your computer or a retail, which did or does come with tiger when you buy it.
    I installed OS X Tiger on my iMac G3 400dv without doing the firmware update first and i updated it to the current version, did it break my monitor? nope. BUT, it says it can, so i'd install OS 9 first and do the firmware update like a good person would. I have since installed OS 9 and fixed the error on my part and reinstalled Tiger.

  • I had multiple copies of the library and i tried to move 1 to trash and now i have broken icon and my mac won't boot up any more can i fix this from home or do I need to go to the genius bar?

    I had multiple copies of the library and i tried to move 1 to trash and now i have broken icon and my mac won't boot up any more can i fix this from home or do I need to go to the genius bar?

    Go to the genius bar. You've mucked up your MBP OS and it requires a hands on repair.

  • Early 2008 MBP source drive won't boot after cloning

    I cloned the original/source drive, via USB, Carbon Copy Cloner, to a Crucial MX100 256GB SSD.  The clone process completed without errors.  I powered down the system to do a start-up from the USB drive to see if it would boot.  The computer will not start from the source drive and holding the Option key to select a boot drive never gets that far.
    I can hear the optical drive try to spin up, the status light blinks quickly like it is trying to start and then quits, remaining a steady light.  I have tried Cmd + R at boot without success.  Tried the PRAM reset, also the SMC reset.
    There is plenty of room on the source drive, at least 160GB.  The target drive is the same size as the source drive.
    Prior to cloning the source drive and powering down, the computer was operating flawlessly.  This an early 2008 model with the 2.5Mhz processor.
    Any recommendations?  I am hesitant to remove the source drive and install the cloned SSD for concern that I'll end up with some other trouble.
    I do not have a start up disk.  BTW, the OS X is Yosemite, the most recent version, .10, I think.
    Thanks,
    Bob

    wsev1955 wrote:
    I have a HP Pavilion Dv4170us laptop added some new upgrades to it.. max RAM 2GB... a new battery... and I bought a 160GB samsung IDE drive to replace the origional 100GB drive...Using EZ Gig II software and usb drive adapter I successfuly cloned the smaller hard drive but when I swaped them out it won't boot windows xp.. just a black screen with the blinking curser at the top left corner... using my windows xp pro disc.. i ran the system recovery and tried first fix mbr command... then I tried fixboot.. I also looked for the boot.ini file which is not in the C: root drive...I only found a back up copy of it in the windows/pss folder... this is on both drives.. so the cloeing copied it all... but the origional drive will boot and the new one won't... I even tried reinstalling XP as a repair installation...still nothing... any ideas??
    Hi,
    Can you see the new hdd in the BIOS?
    Dv6-7000 /Full HD/Core i5-3360M/GF 650M/Corsair 8GB/Intel 7260AC/Samsung Pro 256GB
    Testing - HP 15-p000
    HP Touchpad provided by HP
    Currently on Debian Wheeze
    *Please, help other users with the same issue by marking your solved topics as "Accept as Solution"*

  • After attempting secure erase, iMac w/homemade fusion drive won't boot from *anything*

    2009 iMac with homemade fusion drive (SSD installed in optical bay).  Was working fine with Yosemite until I attempted to secure erase it before giving away the machine.
    Now the drive is borked.  Disk utility could make no sense of it, can't reformat, it can't repartition it.  And now it has completely stopped booting.  I cannot even get it to boot of an external USB drive anymore (the original operation was performed while booted from a Yosemite installer drive on a USB stick).
    I've reset the PRAM, reset the SMC, and just nothing.  All boots are attempted from internal messed up fusion drive, which eventually ends in the "prohibitory sign".
    I'm not even sure what to try at this point.  Any suggestions out there?

    Thank you for the reply.  I have since resolved the problem, although not in the most satisfactory way.
    Here's what I did:
    Pulled both drives out of the iMac, put them into a USB dock, and reformatted each one.  Both drives appeared at this point to be fine.
    Reinstalled both drive into the iMac, and started up from a USB drive.  No problem.
    Recreated the fusion drive from the terminal.  No problem.
    Now, because I am a glutton for punishment, I tried wiping the fusion drive again.  This time, part way in, it kernel panicked.  Luckily, I was able to reboot once again to the external drive.
    At this point, the fusion drive was in the exact same messed up state as when I started.  Disk Utility app could do nothing with it.
    Fortunately, this time I went right to the command line, and was able to fix things up and recreate the fusion drive before anything else bad happened.
    I gave up on wiping the drive for now.  If I need to do so in the future, I will disable the fusion drive and try to wipe each physical drive separately.
    I should note that this iMac has never given a spot of trouble before now, so I am highly suspicious of the way disk utility tries to wipe a fusion drive.  I certainly won't try it again.  (I don't know if it has ever kernel-panicked before in the 5 years I've owned it).

  • Swapping hard drives between PXI-8115 and PXI-8105 won't boot up

    I have a test system running Windows XP on PXI-8105.  I've upgraded the entire test system for another project and need to upgrade my existing systems; the upgrade runs on Windows 7 and PXI-8115.  I have new hard drives with Windows 7 and the new test software which were loaded/configured/tested on a PXI-8115, but I need to retrofit the PXI-8105 with them.  This doesn't work.  Windows begins to boot but fails and tries over and over again.  In an effort to take the PXI-8105 off-line to troubleshoot, I replaced it with one of the PXI-8115 and the old (WinXP) drive.  This didn't boot up, either.
    Here's a summary of my situation:
    An old system has PXI-8105 running WinXP
    A new system has PXI -8115 running Win7
    A hard drive (with Win7) from the PXI-8115 won't boot on the PXI-8105
    A hard drive (with WinXP) from the PXI-8105 won't boot on the PXI-8115
    What is different between the two PXI controllers that keeps me from swapping hard drives?
    Jim
    You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. ~ Alice
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    A couple thoughts:
    1. Windows 7 probably works fine on a PXI-8105. Although NI never officially supported or shipped that configuration, I suspect that the default Windows 7 installation contains enough of the driver support needed to boot up.
    2. In general, Windows is not very tolerant of swapping hard drives between completely different systems, especially with Windows XP and prior. Consider whether just installing fresh and copying over what you need is faster than trying to do this, but if you must, I would suspect that Windows 7 would be more tolerant of the swap.
    3. As a debugging step, try pressing 'F8' during the boot process to launch the Windows boot menu and try safe mode or some of the other options.  More information here.
    4. If all else fails, Google is your friend here as there's nothing particularly specific about this being an NI product that you need to know when attempting this operation. Any information you find online about swapping hard drives between PCs should be relevant to your situation. Searching for 'swap hard drive to new computer windows 7' gave some useful hits on the first page. Beyond that, you can also look into using the 'sysprep' utility to try and clean the system and prepare for swapping to a new PC.

  • New hard drive won't boot!

    I have an iBook, and the hard drive recently broke. First I installed os x on my external firewire hard drive, but the iBook wouldn't boot off of it (it's a maxtor onetouch drive). I got another hard drive, and using the installer (for panther), I formatted the drive, and installed os x on it. However, the iBook won't boot off of the drive. What is wrong? Is it more serious than just the hard drive?

    Well I just tried to boot off of the external hard drive (which is a Maxtor Onetouch firewire drive), while I didn't have an operational hard drive. However now that the replacement drive doesn't work as well (which I am more concerned about), I am wondering whether it is a more serious issue, or not. When I took it apart, I didn't see a logic board connector as in http://www.sterpin.net/uk/ddibookg4uk.htm (picture 43). It boots the installation cd fine, so I assume that there is not a problem with the logic board? The drive I purchased was completely empty, and I am wondering whether the boot part of the partition is wrong?
    In disk utilities (in the installer), it does not see the new internal drive. I have tried to start up holding the option key, but it only has a screen with two buttons, and that ticking clock as a cursor.

  • New SCSI Hard Drive Won't Boot

    Hello,
    I have a problem. My original SCSI drive died on me and I took it out and converted over to only ATA drives. Ever since I did that, my computer has always been a bit lagging. Slow. Not too fast. Anyway, I bought another SCSI drive and I'm trying to use that as my boot drive. I used Carbon Copy Cloner and checked "make bootable" in the preferences, but for some reason my computer just won't boot from it. I've formatted it and it shows up on my desktop, but it won't boot. Start. Make OS go boom boom. I would appreciate any help I could get. Thanks in advance.

    First of all, thanks for your reply. I appreciate it.
    A couple of things. I check my system profiler and I couldn't find out what kind of SCSI card I have. I even opened up my machine and there wasn't any writing on it. So how do I find out what type of card I have? My other question is if the same card worked for the SCSI drive I had before, why won't it work on the new drive. I've set it as the master at the end of the SCSI cord and like I said I used CCC. The drive shows up on my desktop but won't boot. Should I try loading OS from disks instead of using CCC?

  • Blue and White G3 won't boot from CDrom

    I am trying to boot the G3 from the CDrom, but it won't seem to work. I have tried different bootable CDs, but it won't boot from any of them.
    I have tried a few different things including holding C down and going into openfirmware and trying boot cd @ 0:2,\\:tbxi, and the CDrom does get access, but after about 45 seconds or so, it just boots into OSX. I have also reset the PRAM too.
    Now I have added an extra IDE drive to the machine, so does that change the syntax of boot cd command in openfirmware? If so what does it change it too?
    This machine has been upgraded to 10.4.6 if that matters.
    Also I can access all of the drives and manipulate files with no problems at all, so all of the drives are working correctly.
      Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

    On my B&W I have to boot into OS9.2.2 first, then boot from the CD from there. Fortunately I have the old 6 gig hard-drive set up as all OS9.2.2.

  • Just installed Mountain Lion, and my Mac won't boot correctly. What should I do?

    So I stupidly decided to "upgrade" to Mountain Lion this evening. I downloaded ML, installed it, and now whenever I try to boot my Mac I can't get anywhere. The apple logo comes up and the spinning wheel below it starts up, but then it stops and restarts itself over and over again. I can boot in Safe Mode and I have verified the disk and the permissions (there were no issues.) Any suggestions on how to get it to boot normally? If it helps, I have a 2011 Macbook with 8GBs of RAM. I did have Snow Leopard before I tried upgrading to Mountain Lion.
    Also, on a side note, I have my original install DVDs that came with my Macbook... if nothing else works, can I use these to revert back to Snow Leopard? I don't care if I have to clear my entire computer, I have everything I need backed up (and not through Time Machine. I just have the files I want.)

    Have you checked that all your apps are compatible with Mountain Lion? Check that the apps are supported > http://www.roaringapps.com If you have apps that aren't supported, start in safe mode and uninstall them. Then, restart and see if Mountain Lion starts properly.
    Another thing you can do is to reinstall OS X again. To do it, hold Command and R keys while your computer is starting and reinstall OS X.
    xSarabean wrote:
    Also, on a side note, I have my original install DVDs that came with my Macbook... if nothing else works, can I use these to revert back to Snow Leopard?
    Of course. You have to erase the hard drive and install Snow Leopard on your hard disk, but first try to solve the problem with Mountain Lion

  • Pink screen and MacBook Pro won't boot

    yesterday evening I did a software update (which I do regularly), this morning I had a white and pink screen. after pushing the spacebar a few times I goy a status bar saying moving data which was almost finished (5mm left) 5 hours later I still was at that point.
    Afte rebooting the since I do have to work it boots to the point where I see an Apple and a spinning wheel. The wheel keeps spinning forever and it won't boot.
    I tried rebooting, clearing pram, nvram etc nothing helps.
    I booted with shift pressed and could chose between a number of things but on no case Internet was accessible.
    Time machine only offered to reset to last Friday ERASING all my work from the past weekend and Monday.
    Nothing else worked.
    I don't know why an upate of wifi should ruin my day and possible my week.
    I have the timemachine as last resort, but I want my macbook pro to boot decent to get to my data.
    I'm now over 10 hours wasting my time and I'm at a point I might commit a crime if I would meet the delevoper of Apple who made this update.
    Any suggestions?
    regards
    Lode

    I can connect to the Macbook Pro in target mode, but it still won't boot.
    there should be a way of fixing the OSX without losing data.
    Somebody HELP?

Maybe you are looking for