chevy2410 Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 Hey guys, I've been trying to figure this out for awhile now and get it to work. I installed OSX 10.4.6 on my PC and everything went great. I then upgraded to 10.4.7 and no problem here. Now I installed OSX on an PATA drive and now want to CLONE that drive to my new 250gb SATA drive. I've tried Carbon Copy Clone, I've tried Superduper!, and I've tried Drive Genius. Nothing seems to work and I don't know what to do. I have OSXjust the way I like it, patches included. What can I do without reinstalling OSX on my new drive? Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 why not just install OSX to the new drive then when you boot up to your new install and it asks if ya wanna copy your files from another partition just select your old install from the other drive and let it do the work for ya. then when it is done and boots up.. PRESTO... instant identical copy of other drive. excluding any drivers you installed.. hope this helps.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-139776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 5, 2006 Author Share Posted July 5, 2006 What!! Really!! It's that easy? I've been knockin' my head against the wall for a couple of days now trying to get OSX moved over. I will try that and let you all know how it goes. Thanks for the tip Antman. Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-139825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 Ok I can't figure this out. I reinstalled OSX 10.4.6 onto my SATA drive and install went fine. Then at the end asked for a restart. It started to and after all the bios stuff goes by I get a flashing... cursor prompt at the top left corner of the screen and it just sits there. I've searched around and others seem to be having the same problem, but nobody is sharing how they fixed itor if they even did. Anybody have a clue what's going on here? Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-140414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 Doesn't anyone have any solutions for this problem? It seems to be more common than I thought. Also when I try fdisk all I seem to be able to see is my ide drive. I installed OSX on a SATA drive. I would type Fdisk /dev/...., but I don't know what the device is listed as. Anyone?? Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-140516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 .. excluding any drivers you installed..Hi Antman. Do you really mean excluding? In Mac OS X drivers are the kernel extensions, right? So with the way you describe no kexts are copied? How about doing everything with Disk Utility from the install DVD (after creating a new FAT32 partition for Mac OS x86 on the new drive with e.g. Partiton Magic [for following conversion into HFS within Disk Utility)? - chose the new partition and erase it with Mac format journalled - make a .dmg of the old install and save it to another (internal or external) drive (or partition if possible) - once that is completed, restore that dmg to the new partition in the new drive with Disk Utility's restore function That way you also have a backup image of your current system. I have never done that, it's just theory, but maybe someone can say if it works like that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-140539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 I tried to make a .dmg file, but I kept getting an error saying "input/output error" or something very similar to that. Ok here's what I did: Put in OSX 10.4.6(Jas) let it bootup went into disc utils and created a Mac format journalled parition. I then ereased it just to make sure it was empty. Closed out disc utils. and the chose the drive to install OSX. I chose to install both SSE2and SSE3 patches for intel. I also installed the languge pack and X11. I did not install any AMD patches or anything refering to AMD. Install began. After about 25-30mins I was asked to reboot. I do and then choose that OSX drive to boot from. I do this via the bios on my computer. I do have windows XP on a 2nd drive. I really wanted to get my OSX from my PATA drive copied to my new SATA drive. After reboot and I choose the OSX SATA install I get black screen with a flashing cursor. I have tried using a program called SuperDuper! and it seemed to go well, except at the end when it tried to reboot after copying everything over. It tells me there was an error trying to reboot. What do you all think is my issue? Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-140745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Why not try Acronis True Image? That will clone all partitions (including Apple type AF) on one drive to another in one take, including any multiple OS boot setup you have. Also try SPFDISK for OS selection if you have multiple OS; that is better than the current Acronis OS Selector: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...mp;#entry139016 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-140815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 I will give it a try. Thanks Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-140832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 Well something happend to my PTA drive and I couldn't copy any data off of that drive to my SATA drive. So I decided to do a fresh clean install of OSX 10.4.6. The install went fine, but after taking out the install dvd and rebooting my SATA drive wouldn't boot. If I put the install dvd back in and reboot, then let the time run down I can then boot into OSX on my SATA drive. When I go into "system pref's" and look in "startup disk" I don't see my startup drive. All I see is "network startup". What's up with that? Is there a command or something I can add via terminal to say to OSX to boot "XXX" drive everytime there is a reboot or shutdown. Help! Cheers, Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-141368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguelcerca Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 i think it has something to do with the disk utility from 10.4.6 check this out sata woes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-141704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 Well I did fix the problem. After reinstalling OSX again I used a program called spfdisk to set the partition active. That's what the problem was. You live and learn I guess. Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-141740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Just use Disk Utility in MacOSX and use the RESTORE utility. I cloned 3 SATA drives from an old G3 PATA drive.Thanks for the hint, I thought it should work, just never did that because DU did not let me write to my FAT32 partiton so I would have to provide space on an external Harddrive, but I will do that next anyway. BTW telmac5, where did your posting go .. ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/21164-help-how-to-clone-from-pata-to-sata/#findComment-142043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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