This is a long shot but hoping someone has an answer. I was updating from 10.5.3 to 10.5.5 and it's messed up. I used CCC to make a bootable backup on an external USB drive but i can't boot it. I think it's my bios that isn't allowing it. Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can either boot to the backup or restore it back to my internal partition? Thanks.

post system specs please.

The only way it wouldn't boot is if you didn't run Chameleon on it to make it bootable! CCC only clones the data, it does not make it bootable!


StiCMAN

Ok spinecraft, it's in my sig.

StiCMAN, i'm sure when i backed it up CCC said it was bootable. I thought version 3 enabled bootable backups. I'll need to check that out.

I think it would be bootable on a real Mac, since we are using Hackintoshes it wont boot without custom boot loaders. Question is how to do it? Would be nice to have a bootable backup..

There is an article here in the forum that discusses how to make an exact copy of your mac partition using disk utility (you will have to do a search since I have forgotten the link). As I did not follow the guide properly after making a copy I was unable to boot. ( the guide specified installing mac on the first partition instead of windows). Anyway I was able to get around the problem simply by reassigning the windows partition as active. apparently when you make a copy it marks the copy as active.
doing this has really been a life saver for me since it allows you to have 2 bootable osx partition. so you use one to try any updates and if successful then you install on the partition you actually use.
hope this helps.