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Old 09-12-2006, 07:20 PM
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New cloned fw drive will not boot

I just downloaded Super Duper and gave it a try with my G4 Powerbook. Did all the preliminary things as erase and partition of the drive prior to running SD. SD went through all the steps including "Make bootable" and "Make startup" before ending. After ending, tried to boot from the drive w/o success. Tried both ways, Option key hold while booting, fw drive did not show up, and Sys Pref Startup Drive. The latter only gave me a blue screen with a yellow FW icon floating around the screen. I am using a Meritline USB 2 / FW enclosure with a Hitachi/IBM Travelstar drive. My intention is to clone to a 100GB drive and install it into my Powerbook once I know it will boot. Even though the fw drive won't boot, is it problable that it will boot once installed into the Powerbook?
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Old 09-12-2006, 07:22 PM
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How is the drive partitioned? Please open Disk Utility, then click the drive (not the volume, but the drive). Look at the bottom of the Disk Utility window to see...
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Old 09-12-2006, 07:26 PM
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RE: Clone won't boot

The Partition Scheme is : Master Boot Record and format as Mac OD Estended (Journaled).
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Old 09-12-2006, 07:48 PM
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Right. Master Boot Record is a Windows partitioning scheme, and thus won't boot. You need to repartition the drive as "Apple Partition Map" if you'd like it to be bootable...
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Old 09-12-2006, 07:54 PM
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Tks. I caught that when you asked what partition was. Redoing it as we speak, will let you know how it turns out.
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This is one of those "I-Don't-Understand-Why-They-Changed-This" things -- it never used to let you create an HFS+ partition on an MBR drive before... it's creating a lot of problems for people, as you might expect.
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