Esternal clone NOT recognized

Made 2 separate clones. One with CCC and one with Superduper.
When I go to my System Preferences and click StartUp Disk, my MBP does not acknowledge my SuperSuper copy at all even though it is MOUNTED according to my Disc Utility feature.
Now when my CCC clone Drive is mounted, there is absolutely NO problem with StartUp Disk recognizing its presence and it shows in the window.
What could be the issue.
If you can help I would be appreciative.
I have the latest version of SD (for Snow Leopard) but I am using to copy v.10.5.8, SL is not installed yet. Could that be the problem? CCC is for 10.5.8, not upgraded yet to the beta version for SL.
Thank You

chidiar wrote:
Made 2 separate clones. One with CCC and one with Superduper.
When I go to my System Preferences and click StartUp Disk, my MBP does not acknowledge my SuperSuper copy at all even though it is MOUNTED according to my Disc Utility feature.
Now when my CCC clone Drive is mounted, there is absolutely NO problem with StartUp Disk recognizing its presence and it shows in the window.
What could be the issue.
Apparently the SD clone didn't complete properly -- if it doesn't, OSX won't recognize it as a bootable partition. Disk Utility may mount it, but that doesn't mean it's bootable.
I've never used SD (just CCC), but I'd be inclined to simply do the clone over, and watch it carefully to be sure it completes normally. If it does, but OSX still doesn't recognize it, check with the SD forums.

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