Restore question -- Why didn't it work?

[MBHockey]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Yes, there's documentation about how to restore in the User's Guide ("Recovering from a disaster". Unfortunately, I have no idea why you got a kernel panic; that would generally indicate you had hardware problems or low-level software issues at the time... perhaps your internal HD is failing?

Doubtful. It's brand new, SMART status is verified etc.

I read the restore part in the manual and it says to follow the same steps that I tried. It flat out did not work, twice. So it wasn't me that screwed it up. Can anyone tell me why my supposed clone is 5GB less than my internal HD?