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Is the old backup from a different Mac?
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No, same mac (2.33GHz Intel PB Pro). I made the backup, then immediately tried to boot from it. Tried booting a couple of times with same result.
To attempt to restore corrupted files, can I just drag / drop system files to re-copy them to the BU? Edit: I just checked the partition with DiskUtility and it was OK. Last edited by kentr; 10-16-2009 at 02:55 PM. |
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Before you do that, can you start up with Shift held down from power on?
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Didn't work...
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Did you make this copy while running OS X 10.4, of a 10.4 disk? Or did you make a copy of Snow Leopard from Tiger (or vice versa)?
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Snow Leopard (10.6) wasn't installed at that time. After I used SuperDuper! to make the copy of 10.4, I fresh installed 10.6 onto another partition of the same external HD. I haven't installed 10.6 onto the internal yet b/c I want a solid backup first. This was SD! 2.5, btw. Sorry I didn't mention that. I'm happy to wipe it and make a fresh copy if it's required, but since it's so time-consuming I'd rather avoid it if there's some way I can just re-do the system files... I think I'll just do that and let it run while I do some chores. The drive has some TurboUSB software, so maybe that's interfering with it somehow as well. Last edited by kentr; 10-16-2009 at 05:40 PM. |
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It's certainly possible... very hard to know. It might be useful to start up while holding down Cmd+opt+v (which goes into 'verbose boot') to see if there are any useful diagnostics printed when it fails...
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