I get an input/output error when i try to restore a functioning backup from my external harddrive to my new internal harddrive through disk utility?

my hardrive Had a smart status warning so i made a backup of it on my external harddrive through disk utility. i checked to make sure that the backup was working and i had no problems with it. i then bought a new internal harddrive and swaped it out but when i was in recovery mode to try to restore my new hardrive i kept getting an error message saying restore error, input/output error

The big dilemma with a new Internal drive is separating Drive operation from 'inside the MacBook' operation. If you had an External Enclosure, you could do all the work (including booting up from the new drive) using the External enclosure.
Then if a know-good drive develops problems only when moved inside the MacBook, it is time to try a replacement cable.

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The error message I get from DBus is that it can't access the file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.conf because of an Input/Output error. I tried to fix/see what was wrong using the arch livecd. Because I thought my problem had to do with a pacman update that had failed before I'd rebooted, I updated my system and I noticed that when pacman tried to access other files it came back with the same error message. The files seemed pretty random, one of them was fakeroot.conf and then several library files like libfaad (sorry this is kind of vague but I'm away from home right now and can't go online very often so I'm writing this from memory).
I'm guessing its a hard drive problem because checking the filesystem for errors came back with nothing. I was just wondering whether anyone had any other ideas before I go and reinstall. I'm going back home tomorrow so I'll be able to follow any advice/reinstall then.
Last edited by siell (2010-04-08 17:01:37)

UPDATE
It seems to be fixed! The second run of e2fsck fixed some more issues and the files that were causing the problems earlier seemed to have bad inodes. Boots fine now and I can get into my system. I checked and I still have a reasonable amount of free space so I don't think that was the reason ... I have no idea how the filesystem got so corrupted out of nowhere.
A few things are different, for example, it asked me to unlock the keyring and I couldn't mount my external encrypted drive anymore and had to do it manually with cryptsetup. e2fsck made quite a few changes so I imagine it's due to that. Shouldn't be to hard to fix though.
Thanks for your help!

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I'm having similar issues on a white macbook (2006 model). I ran into some trouble with it about a month ago, when on booting up, it showed only the folder with a question mark. Booting up from the original grey install DVD worked, so I thought the problem was most likely a faulty hard drive.
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Doh! Too late?
So, I got onto ebay and picked up a deal and received my new hard drive yesterday. I swapped out the original 80GB with 320GB, only to find the same input/output error described by the OP, here (also in a couple of other Apple discussion posts - see below).
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/16090313#16090313
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/16081818#16081818
So, what can the problem be?!?!?!?!?
In this post, JMPC suggests it has something to do with the size of the new internal hard drive....groan.....:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16145560?tstart=0#16145560?tstart=0
Can anyone confirm this?

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Hi,
The following procedure I'm getting an ORA-04052 error when I try to compile the following procedure.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE APPS.Find_String (
pin_referenced_name IN dba_dependencies.referenced_name%TYPE)
IS
cursor cur_get_dependancy
is
SELECT distinct owner, name, type
FROM [email protected]        -- prod.world
WHERE lower(referenced_name) = lower(pin_referenced_name) --'ftbv_salesrep_all_1d'
   AND referenced_type <> 'SYNONYM'
   AND owner <> 'SYS'
order by name;
v_owner varchar2(40);
v_name   varchar2(50);
v_type   varchar2(40);
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END find_string;I'm using the link [email protected]. The procedure compiles for other database links used in the cursor including the one commented to the right of the code 'prod.world'.
What's even stranger is that I took the SELECT statement
SELECT distinct owner, name, type
FROM [email protected]        -- prod.world
WHERE lower(referenced_name) = lower(pin_referenced_name) --'ftbv_salesrep_all_1d'
   AND referenced_type <> 'SYNONYM'
   AND owner <> 'SYS'
order by name;out of the procedure and ran it on the command line using the @pinp.world link, the SQL statement ran just fine. But when I tried to compile the above procedure with that exact same SQL statement with the exact same link I get the following string of errors.
ORA-04052: error occurred when looking up remote object [email protected]
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-02068: following severe error from PINP
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channelHow can the link work just fine in a regular SQL statement but then cause an error when its compiled in code that otherwise compile just fine when using any other link or even just a plain database. Does anyone have any suggestions?

OK Justin,
Here's the query by itself run in another database using the @pinp.world link and querying the dba_dependencies table in the pinp.world database. As you can see the query using this link works just fine returning the requested rows. I can't figure out why the compiler is having an issue with essentially this same query when I try to compile it in a cursor in TOAD. Also this is the database (dev1.world) that I'm trying to compile this Procedure in.
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Connected.
SQL> SELECT distinct owner, name, type
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4     AND referenced_type <> 'SYNONYM'
5     AND owner <> 'SYS'
6   order by name;
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XDB                            DBMS_XDBZ0                     PACKAGE BODY
SYSTEM                         MVIEW_EVALUATIONS              VIEW
SYSTEM                         MVIEW_EXCEPTIONS               VIEW
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PORTAL                         WWV_CONTEXT                    PACKAGE BODY
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PORTAL                         WWV_DDL                        PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_GENERATE_UTL               PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_GLOBAL                     PACKAGE
PORTAL                         WWV_MONITOR_DATABASE           PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_PARSE_AS_SPECIFIC_USER     PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_PARSE_AS_USER              PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_SYS_DML                    PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_SYS_RENDER_HIERARCHY       PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_THINGSAVE                  PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_UTIL                       PACKAGE BODY
PORTAL                         WWV_UTLVALID                   PACKAGE BODY
38 rows selected.
SQL>Let me know what you think.
Thanks again.

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SteveDVD,
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I'm having similar issues on a white macbook (2006 model). I ran into some trouble with it about a month ago, when on booting up, it showed only the folder with a question mark. Booting up from the original grey install DVD worked, so I thought the problem was most likely a faulty hard drive.
It's only after having this problem, that I came across this recall for possible faulty hard drives, that Apple offered:
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook/hd/repairextension/
Doh! Too late?
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Disk utility shows the new hard drive to be 2.3TB in size! Should be 320GB - but, this is also what others have described. See e.g.,:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16090313#16090313
I've run the extended testing from the CD (holding down 'D' on boot-up) and it reported no problems. Also, similar to others experiences:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16081818#16081818
So, what can the problem be?!?!?!?!?
In this post, JMPC suggests it has something to do with the size of the new internal hard drive....groan.....:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16145560?tstart=0#16145560?tstart=0
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