Clone disk/10.4.9 won't work/disk won't come up

[chasingcharlie]

I've tried: Silverkeeper; the command line utility and the free clone software.

Here is what happens:

Boot computer and gets to the point where it's supposed to list all the drives, etc. and then hangs there on that screen. This is after I've updated from 10.4.8 to 10.4.9. Before that, the utilities worked.

I've tried numerous times and it "seems" to work but then it hangs at the last step before booting. Anyone know anything I can try? I get no error messages from the utilities and when I run a directory of the drive inside of OSX, all the files seem to be there.

When I try to use the Fdisk utility, it says the drive is read only and it won't write to it. How can I take it out of read only mode inside of a terminal window?

 

any help appreciated

 

thanks

charlie