Please help me! Hard drive failing, cloning errors...
 

Hey there.

I'd really appreciate some help here. I am on an extremely limited and inflexible schedule right now, and of course my hard drive decided to fail at the most inconvenient time in my life.

So, I have a new internal coming. The present drive is still kind of working but is wonky. I am trying to get a clone made using superduper so that I can use it to transfer my current drive to the new one coming.

I am going out to by a new external drive today, but right now, I am trying to clone using a disk image, and this is the error I am getting with that (the name of the disk image is "CLONE"):

| 01:29:02 PM | Info | SuperDuper!, 2.1.4 (82), path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, Mac OS 10.3.9 build 7W98 (ppc)
| 01:29:02 PM | Info | Started on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 1:29 PM
| 01:29:02 PM | Info | Source Volume: Macintosh HD, mount: /, device: /dev/disk0s3, media: TOSHIBA MK8025GAS, interconnect: Internal ATA, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.3.9 (7W98), capacity: 74.41 GB, used: 67.12 GB, directories: 68439, files: 309868, ejectable: NO, ACLs: Disabled
| 01:29:02 PM | Info | Target Volume: CLONE, mount: /Volumes/CLONE, device: /dev/disk2s2, media: Apple sparse disk image, interconnect: File Virtual Interface, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: N/A, capacity: 74.41 GB, used: 0.15 GB, directories: 180, files: 1127, ejectable: YES, ACLs: Disabled
| 01:29:02 PM | Info | Copy Mode : Erase, then copy files
| 01:29:02 PM | Info | Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
| 01:29:02 PM | Info | Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | PHASE: 1. Prepare to Copy Files
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Macintosh HD
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying the integrity of volinfo.database
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | volinfo.database OK
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Macintosh HD
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Macintosh HD
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | Permissions on '/' are enabled.
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Erasing CLONE
| 01:29:03 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Preserving CLONE UUID
| 01:29:04 PM | Info | 81BDA1B4790A323C
| 01:29:04 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Preserving spotlight indexing state
| 01:29:04 PM | Info | Indexing state is unknown because CLONE is not a 10.4 Volume
| 01:29:04 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Erasing CLONE
| 01:29:11 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Restoring CLONE UUID (81BDA1B4790A323C)
| 01:29:11 PM | Info | 81BDA1B4790A323C
| 01:29:11 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Restoring Spotlight search indexing state on CLONE
| 01:29:11 PM | Info | Indexing was not enabled because CLONE is not a 10.4 Volume
| 01:29:11 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing CLONE
| 01:29:11 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on CLONE
| 01:29:11 PM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for CLONE
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | Permissions on '/Volumes/CLONE' are enabled.
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that CLONE ACL support matches Macintosh HD
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | PHASE: 2. Copy Files
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Copying files from Macintosh HD to CLONE
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cloning Macintosh HD to CLONE
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | Copying copy files using script: /Users/jasongoldberg/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | Loading 21 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | Loading 6 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system cache files.dset
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Spotlight search index.dset
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | Loading 0 commands from copy script /Users/jasongoldberg/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 01:29:12 PM | Info | /
| 01:29:15 PM | Info | /Cleanup At Startup
| 01:29:15 PM | Info | /usr
| 01:29:32 PM | Info | WARNING: Caught I/O exception(2): No such file or directory
| 01:29:32 PM | Info | WARNING: Source: /usr/bin/ex, lstat(): 0
| 01:29:32 PM | Info | WARNING: Target: /Volumes/CLONE/usr/bin/ex, lstat(): -1
| 01:29:32 PM | Info | Attempting to copy file using ditto.
| 01:29:32 PM | Error | SDCopy: Failed to recover from copy error for file /usr/bin/ex: No such file or directory



Can someone please direct me!? I am desperate and I really don't have time to search through the archives. (I am sorry if that sounds rude or arrogant or something, but I am seriously freaking out here and need to get up and running ASAP --- )

It certainly looks like the internal drive is damaged. Let's try to fix it with Disk Utility.

Please boot from your OS X install DVD and run Disk Utility from the Installer menu (the bold one that says "Installer" next to the Apple menu at the top of the screen) or Utilities/Tools menu (Depending on the version of the disc).

Then, use the First Aid tab to repair the internal drive, using the buttons on the right (NOT Repair Permissions on the left). Repeat until no problems are found, then try again.

That didn't work. It does the same exact thing.

Disk Repair kept on saying something about overlapping file extensions...

OK. The drive's pretty hosed, then. Perhaps Disk Warrior?