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I wanted to upgrade to a 500 gb SATA hard drive from the 80 gb ide my copy of Leopard (brazilmac) is currently installed on. I cloned the hard drive using carbon copy cloner and when I went to boot, the cloned hard drive just stops on a blinking cursor in DOS. Leopard works just fine on the 80 gb hard drive, in fact I'm using it right now. Any ideas?

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the cloned drive needs to be set to active. Thsi can be done numerous ways. Try googling it.

EDIT: For the record its not DOS. DOS is an operating system in its own right. Its simply the front end of your system telling you it ahs nothing to do.

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Try GUID or EFi or FORMAT AND MAKE HARDDRIVE BOOTABLE

 

 

 

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Sorry, I can't seem to find anything on google about it. Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking for. If anyone could help point me in the right direction that'd be great.
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One way to set the drive active would be to get hold of Acronis Disk Director Suite and make a boot cd. You would need a Windows machine to do this. Then you just boot from the cd and can set the partition as required. You also get a boot manager which might help, but I'd stay away from that as it installs to the partition and will overwrite your Darwin bootloader or whatever.

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Or in fact you can use the terminal to do it. Boot up your mac os x dvd on the machine you cant boot. Open terminal and type as follows.

 

diskutil list this will give you a list of drives. Make note of the leopard drive number. i will use X and Y in these instructions substitute accordingly.

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX

 

update

 

f Y

 

w

 

y (dont substitute this one just type y)

 

q

 

reboot

 

That will make that drive the active partition.

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Or in fact you can use the terminal to do it. Boot up your mac os x dvd on the machine you cant boot. Open terminal and type as follows.

 

diskutil list this will give you a list of drives. Make note of the leopard drive number. i will use X and Y in these instructions substitute accordingly.

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX

 

update

 

f Y

 

w

 

y (dont substitute this one just type y)

 

q

 

reboot

 

That will make that drive the active partition.

 

 

Tried this twice and it still doesn't get past blinking cursor on system bootup.

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Just to clarify what I have done. I have had a working version of Leopard running on my PC for the past month or so. I wanted to upgrade from a 80 gb IDE to a 500 gb SATA. So I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my drive. When I go to boot the cloned drive it gets stuck at a blinking cursor.

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  • 3 weeks later...
I have had a working version of Leopard running on my PC for the past month or so. I wanted to upgrade from a 80 gb IDE to a 500 gb SATA.

I want to do just this - well, go from an old 200GB SATA drive to a new 500GB SATA drive. How do I do it?

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Hmmm...

 

Boot dvd and in terminal:

 

diskutil list

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 <- if your disk number is 0

p

f 2 <- if your disk use guid = second partition has system. mbr = 1

write

yes

exit

reboot

 

disk out from dvd machine.

 

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my experiences: sometimes you have also to reinstall efi with a proper bootloader and to set the disk active with fdisk. like here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=75928

After cloning Drive with CCC reinstallation of EFI ( Chameleon or EFIv8) is MUST I have GUID Retail DVD install , I just reinstall EFI Chameleon EFI with installer .It is bootable

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After cloning Drive with CCC reinstallation of EFI ( Chameleon or EFIv8) is MUST I have GUID Retail DVD install , I just reinstall EFI Chameleon EFI with installer .It is bootable

 

seems that "sometimes" was wrong - can´t remember after testing too many clone-tools :help:

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Here are couple of notes related to solving GUID/Chameleon booting problems.

 

(1) These systems can have problems with drives that have multiple partitions, try reformatting your drive to a single partition (this solved my problem).

 

(2) As of Chameleon 1.0.11, "case-sensitive" versions of HFS+ are apparently not supported, so again try reformatting to the default HFS+ (journaled). Note, a version of boot1h for HFS+ is available for manual use is supposed to be included with Chameleon 1.0.12:

 

http://tinyurl.com/56xc7w

 

http://tinyurl.com/5tk233

 

(3) A special version of the "fdisk" command comes with Chameleon, try to use that one instead (especially for dual booting with Vista).

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Having similar issues trying to get drive cloned with CCC bootable.

 

Find the instructions on EFI and Chameleon bootloader a little bit confusing as the text says that everything will be OVERWRITTEN!

Wouldn't the clone be gone then?

 

Also tried CopyCatX

if you have an other os x install on your machine, you could use also copycatx to clone it - works perfect without any problems
but when I try to copy to the external USB drive I get the message "Unable to unmount"

 

Tried to unmount in Disk Utilty which seem to unmount but CopyCatX is still "Unable to unmount"

 

Only way I have been able to successfully make bootable clones are by using a bootable DOS CD with Norton Ghost and the image on a FAT32 partition. However with this method the source and target partitiones have to be EXACTLY the same (same number of cylinders). So no resizing possible!

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try it in terminal with

 

diskutil unmount diskXsY

 

it doesn´t matter what tool you are using - the disk has to be unmounted. later on I have to clone a disk. will try it with copycatx using usb. let´s see what my results are

 

EDIT: used copycatx to clone to a usb connected disk - absolutely no problem!

must be something wrong with your system.tried it on my gigabyte EP45 and my asus PW5.working on both!

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Is there a simple way to pop EFI or CHameleon onto a partition which isnt booting?

 

I have a backup of a nice ready configured retail install that I have restored to a partition on my MBR formatted drive. I want to be able to make it bootable. I'd be laughing if I could boot the Chameleon installer but its a DMG file so needs to be mounted on a working Mac install. Chicken and egg!!!!

 

Ideas?

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I just did this yesterday and this is what I did:

First ofcourse I copied the stuff back from my ccc usb drive to my internal Sata drive, found out it did´nt boot so I scratched my head a little and decided to boot from my 132 cd. This worked and when I had my Sata drive up running again I downloaded latest chameleon installed it then run osx86tools, done.

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