Disk Utility wont copy TimeMachine to new Drive using Restore

I'm trying to transfer my TimeMachine backups to a new firewire 800 drive from an old USB2 one. Having read the advice on here, I've tried to copy across the drive using restore. Disk Utility thought about it for 4 hours or so and then gave me the finger. So what do I do please?

What TO do. Not what do.

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I have a friends 1 TB toshiba external drive, purchased at office works. I am trying to format it for NTFS so he can use it to watch the movies he is copying on any machine, xbox etc..
using disk utility I am erasing the 1tb drive with the NTFS format option, then I am creating the partition with NTFS but after formatting, it is only allowing me to read. I have tried formating the hard drive with Mac OSX journaled and then creating the partition at 1tb with NTFS, but getting the same issue.
I am a little confused as I just did the same thing with my 2TB drive I purchased from Office works as well.
any ideas?
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Hi Bret. I am not sure I fully understand the details of your problem - the mention of another drive (the 2TB one) confused me a little. I'll try to help though because it doesn't look like anyone has had a chance to reply to your question yet.
As far as I can see, OS X doesn't write to NTFS formatted drives by default. It appears you can enable it by altering the mount options, e.g. http://learnaholic.me/2013/11/11/enable-ntfs-write-on-mac-os-x-mavericks/
Alternatively, perhaps just formatting it as FAT32 would achieve your aim - although now that I check, it doesn't really look suitable as it has a 4GB file size limit and some of the movies could be over that.
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(Sorry for the duplication of this question - first posted inside "Consiglieri's" thread- but I realized it is probably more appropriate to post separately.
Hi Kenichi (or anyone else in the forum with a possible answer)
From the thread with "Consiglieri" re. Leopard, are you recommending running Repair Disk after cloning to a new drive (in this case, using CCC) as a ROUTINE procedure? I will shortly be installing a new HD and cloning to it with CCC from a bootable external HD. These situations would appear to be somewhat similar.
For that matter, would it be useful to run Repair Disk on the external drive itself, first, even before installing the new drive? Kenichi's original remarks quoted below. Thanks.
"I installed a new hard drive in the second bay about the same time as upgrading to Leopard. I then cloned from the first drive to the new drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. I did a Repair Disk on the new drive using Disk Utility, to make sure there were no disk directory errors. Finally, I rebooted from the new drive to make sure everything worked like with the original drive. The original drive was now my backup."

Thanks. Sorry if I'm dragging this out, but I'm a little confused. You say 1&2 are reversed, but in order to do Disk Repair first on the external, (my step 1) - before using it to clone to the new drive- wouldn't I first have to be booted in a different drive, in this case the original internal drive, before it's removed? And, then, won't I be booted in the external in order to do the clone to the new (target) drive, after which I would run Disk Repair on the new HD, still booted from the external?
If I install the new HD first (my step 2) wouldn't I be unable to run Disk Repair on the external, since I'd be booted in the external?

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I go to the ERASE tab and can only select "Mac OS Standard" or "UNIX File System" for the volume format. I select the Mac OS Standard and press the Erase button, but I get a message "Disk erase failed with the following error: The chosen size is not valid for the chosen file system."
I go to the PARTITION tab and can't do anything there either. When it lets me edit the form and press the Partition button, it gives an error saying "Device not configured." Usually as soon as I do anything on this form (e.g., select the Format dropdown), all the choices are grayed out with the notice "the disk is too small to contain partitions".
Based upon research here and elsewhere, I know this is a compatible drive. Am I missing a step? Could the drive be bad?
PowerMac G5 dual 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.5 GB RAM

My first hardware upgrade has not gone too well. I
just got a Maxtor 6L250S0 drive to fill empty second
bay of my dual 1.8 PowerMac G5. (Drive specs: 250
GB SATA Ultra 16, DiamondMax, 16 MB cache, 7200 RPM)
Installation was a breeze, but I can't get my Mac
to erase, format, partition or otherwise initialize
the drive for use. When I rebooted, I got the
message about needing to initialize the new
hardware. I clicked "Initialize", and Disk Utility
came up. Disk Utility lists "Maxtor SABRE"
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I have never seen a Maxtor come up as "Maxtor SABRE" in disk utility. Your post says the Maxtor 250GB hard drive is mounted internally. If so, I would guess that the drive is damaged. I would take it back for a working drive.
Or you could call Maxtor at (800) 262-9867. I have had two Maxtor drives fail in the last 5 months and the techs at Maxtor sent me replacements and then I returned the damage drives in their shipping boxes.
The Maxtor tech guys are very helpful and give Mac users the benefit of the doubt when it comes to warranty returns. At least that was my experience.
The drive should display Maxtor 6L250S0 in the disk utility window and Smart Drive status should be active.
I hope this helps,
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Oh Gosh, I am having this same problem too. I normally do not shut down ever, I reboot often because I have to due to bad wireless reception. Last month, I did a full shut down and unplug due to a terrible storm coming in. When I went to boot up, it took very long and I had booted from my external bootable drive. My saving grace is that since crashing my emac in 2006, I am a rabid "backerupper" (made up my own word). I have been using lacie’s Silverkeeper to make bootable back ups just in case. So When I tried disk utility, it did not see my drive. I used my third party software "Disk Warrior" by Alsoft, it saw my drive, and then I unplugged my external and then booted again from the Snow Leopard DVD and was able to repair. All was well until this weekend. We had a storm come trough quickly and we lost power, now I have the same problem you do but this time Disk Warrior does not see the disk either. I am going to dig around for a while before I hit the Genius bar. I fear the drive is fried. And for me I am not certain this will be worth the dollar amount to replace since this is a 2006 and not upgradeable, but I will check with an outside vendor for price for the drive so I know what I want to do if in fact the Genius bar cannot see the drive either. I do hope you have a back up version, and would suggest having third party software to take a chance to see if you can find your disk. My imac is an Intel duo core 2 GHZ and from what I can tell model number A1174. To get help from the smart people here it would be useful for you to post the rest of your specs. If you don't know the exact model, you can check everymac.com and plug in your serial number. Under the computer stand you will find the serial number and the emc number and you can find out from everymac.com what exact model you have. If I find anything I will come back to this thread and report in. Good luck to you.

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