I cloned my HD & now I can't eject or unmount it
My first post - though I read them often. OK, I am a newbie at cloning my PB hard drive - but I thought I was prepared w/ enough info to get me through it.. But.. This is what I did so far: I have a powerbook g4 1.25Ghz and wanted to clone my internal hard drive so I used carboncopy cloner, w/ a firewire 400 Lacie external drive 200GB (I have another ex HD but unplugged it before I did this) erased and partitioned it to prep it followed the simple directions w/ carboncopy and all went well as far as I can tell. No error messages or anything. When it was finished making the clone, I closed CCC and my computer was still on but I was doing something else at my other desk. I looked over because I heard the clone EX HD begin 'percalating' with activity. 'What?!' The EX HD wasn't supposed to be doing anything on its own - (so I thought).. I closed the two programs I had open (mail & web browser) on the PB turned my airport off to see if that would do anything. No it didn't. Please help as I really don't know what to do. Everytime I try and eject the cloned ex. drive (it is bootable) I cannot. It always says that it is in use and I should close applications or files.. and so I can't unmount the thing. I DID put the laptop to sleep -- and the EX HD drive got 'quiet' -- but when I wake my powerbook the clone EX HD gets back to whatever activity it was doing. HELP! I'm really new to cloning my HD and I can't get the clone to disconnect! This is probably (or rather, hopefully) a simple answer, but I just don't know how to do it. Any advice is MUCH appreciated. THANKS.
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Yes, you are right - you do already have most of the parts to the answer of your question.
For clarity here's the whole procedure:
1. Make sure you have cloned your drive properly, using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!*, and had set the clone to be bootable in the relevant utlity's preferences.
2. With the external drive still connected via FireWire, restart the PowerBook.
3. Upon hearing the startup chime, press and hold down the 'option'/alt key until you see the Startup Manager.
4. Select the icon of the drive you want to boot up from.
5. Click the 'right arrow' icon to boot up from the drive you have chosen.
*SD! has an option to automatically reboot from the external drive after the cloning process.
15" 1.25GHz/12" 1GHz PBs, 2xPPC Mac minis, 12" iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.7) Cube, 2xTAMs, iPod 4G & nano 2G, iPs, AEBS, AX
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