Craig Alan
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If that doesn’t do it, you might try Disc Warrior and a couple of other third party drive utilities, not Nortons. Repair permissions too. Once recovered. back it up. There are places that can recover most drives as long as you don
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Yeah that was what I thought. If I clone with the option NOT to delete things on the target that is not on the source, I suppose I’d end up with a combo of the two drives, but no assurance the latest version of each file is the one that remains. I’m usually pretty organized, but my machine has been in and out and in the shop again and I’ve had two loaners. As a result, I have gotten confused as to what is on what backup. Usually it
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https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300574
OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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I erased the partition that had the clone and chose os extended (journaled). Then I re-cloned the power book system. This time the firewire drive was bootable. My other problem was moving a previous backup of ms user files to system. I always got an error message that those files were in use. Not if I boot off the clone.
OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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Yes it shows up as 10.3.8, everything on it seems fine but it will not boot. I’m going to try to erase the whole partition and clone it again. I think the journaling might have something to do with it and it occurs to me that if it was cloning to an already formatted drive that it might not be able to come out journaled. But I’m just guessing and I don’t want to wipe out the other partition and don’t know if I’d need to. Any insight would be appreciated.
OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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I used CCC but i notice that the clone is not journaled. Could that be the reason? Also it’s on one partition of the external drive. Do you need to use the whole drive to get a journaled format?
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OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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tried the safe boot mode and it still says that it is “in use.” weird. I think i’ll try to copy from one back up to another so i am not using the boot drirve.
OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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Thanks Stephen. I’ve used safe mode when repairing permissions when I don’t mind rebooting, but never really knew what it meant.
OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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Hi Tom,
Been having problems with this procedure. I cloned my G4 desktop system drive, 10.2.3, to an external firewire drive using CCC, when I took my Mac in for repairs. They lent me a powerbook, which came with 10.3. I migrated all my apps and user folders from the backed up drive to the powerbook using 10.3’s migration utility. Worked like a charm. Then before returning powerbook, I backed up my home folder. But when I got my desktop back from the shop, it still had problems. So they lent me another powerbook. Again, I migrated everything from the original back up of my desktop. Now I needed to update certain folders in the home directory from the back up of the first powerbook home folder. Here’s where the blow by blow ends and the questions begins:
When I try to copy the Microsoft user data to the new documents folder (or even just the database file or any folder of the user data) I get a dialog that says it is in use and therefore can’t be copied. No applications are active.
And 2, I backed up the powerbook system drive to a partition on a firewire drive. I used CCC and selected bootable. However, I can’t boot from the firewire drive. Before the OS X screen comes on, the circle under the apple logo spins until I do a power down. I do notice that the system on the firewire drive is Mac OS extended but not (journaled). The case for this drive is from Wiebetech and after the firmware update, making it compatible with 10.3. I had hoped that by booting from this that I could then copy the database file to the new powerbook.
Any ideas on correcting either of these would be appreciated.
Also if I get all this corrected, will I be able to boot my desktop G4 from a clone of the powerbook? I would be willing to pay for 10.3, and hopefully get 10.4 as a free upgrade if the timing is right. It sure would be easier than trying to get every back into place when I get my desktop back.
OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media
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I’m in the middle of the same thing. If your system drive is hopelessly corrupted, now that you have backed it up, you can do an erase and install on your system drive. Then create the same named user account that was on your original drive. Then open up side-by-side windows of that user account. The new one, freshly installed, and your old one, on the back-up. Drag into the new one any folders you created but not the identical named folders that the install created. For those: open up the folders on the back up, highlight all the contents and drag them into the corresponding new folders. IE movies, documents, etc. Best to leave library contents alone unless you find you need one for some reason. You can also try 10.3’s migration utility and treat the external drive as your old computer when the prompt tells you to. This is assuming the problem is the software. If it’s not you can try removing extra ram chips and rotating them to see if one is causing the problem. You can try booting from the external drive and seeing if your computer is happy. Or you can do what i did and say this is over my head and call apple, if it’s under warranty, and have them talk you through this and then if you still cont. to panic bring it in for repairs. So far they have gutted about $1500 worth of parts and it’s still not fixed. Just cause you got it to boot once does not mean all is well. This is not normal behavior. It’s a good idea to take notes as to what you did and what happened when.
OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media