Clone hard Drive not booting need to make copy

[cameronboy]

Yes I fell for the psystar boot loader which gave me an easy life no more kext editing etc.

I want to clone my main hard drive 10.6.2 with psystars boot loader.

I have tried carbon copy without success I want to clone the drive so I can try apple updates without killing my system.

any advice welcome.

hardware

Model Identifier:

motherboard EX58-UD5

Processor Speed: i7 2.67 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 8 MB

Memory: 6 GB

Bus Speed: 533 MHz

Itb seagate barracuda hard drive

 

when I have tried to clone a drive onto an old 300gb sata drive the bios reports no drive found..

 

thanks in advance

[tle88]

I made copy with apple own disktools, which is part of 10.6.2 system.

( my system is different language, I do not know exact name )

 

"Source & delete Target before" - do the job.

 

My bootloader is Chameleon 2 RC5 pre8. I am not sure, does it

load from my sata0 or sata1 disk, but it is easy to install later, if

necessary.

 

-.-

[manual123]

Try Superduper

[Mushishi]

and reinstall the bootloader on the cloned drive before trying to boot on it... remember macs do not use the bootloader we do so they dont restore that part of the drive... i think the closest you can get to a real 1:1 clone is using dd

 

And i feel sorry for you that you are using the psystar bootloader... Thinking that support is going to be lost for that in the near future, and there are free bootloaders (chameleon 2 and pc_efi 10.x plus all the home build versions with small fixes of the 2) that will do the same, and make sure also that you can update later on.