OS X :: Can Clon An External HD To Another Computer

Oct 9, 2009

I just purchased a used G4 Laptop 1.67 with OS Leopard on it. I have an external HD which has a clone from another computer I wish to transfer to my new computer. This clone of course is a startup. The OS on my clone is Tiger and it is from another G4 Laptop. Any problem with just hooking up my external HD to the new computer and cloning it to the new computer?

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Aug 24, 2009

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Oct 14, 2009

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Sep 3, 2009

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My plan has been to get a good Super Duper backup right before I take the MB in, use the clone while it is gone, and when it comes back, just do a SD clone from the external to the internal. Anyone see any problems with my plan?

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Nov 11, 2009

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Everything was going fine until about September until my hard drive suddenly wouldn't connect to my Mac or my friend's computer running XP. He suggested that I take the drive out of the enclosure and he lent me a separate SATA-USB adapter to use. This worked, and I was using it for a while. However, my friend soon needed his adapter back, so I retried the original enclosure and it started working again.

This was about a month ago, and it has been working fine ever since until yesterday, when I accidentally knocked the power cord out while it was performing a Time Machine backup (stupid, I know). I think i finally killed the original enclosure because it won't even spin anymore, but when I borrowed my friends adapter again, it worked fine on his computer (it recognized the FAT32 partition, but obviously not the Mac-formatted partition). However, It still will not load on my Mac. I tried it on several different computer running both Vista and XP - including my boot-camped XP partition - and it worked fine on all of them. I have not been able to try it on any other Macs.

I will report back when I get the opportunity to try my hard drive it on another Mac (probably tomorrow afternoon), but I wanted to post now in case anyone's seen this problem before.

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Apr 18, 2009

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Sep 6, 2009

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Sep 17, 2009

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May 7, 2012

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I've tried moving the speaker wire up and away from power cables (two Dell monitors directly next to the speakers) but that doesn't work; it doesn't sound quite like a DC hum anyway though. The speakers aren't heavily shielded (they usually pick up interference from an iPhone placed too close) so maybe it's always going to be an issue. I used to have them plugged into a 2006 Mac Pro via an analog mixer which I've removed from the chain.

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Apr 2, 2009

I have had this issue for years now on all my Macs.

It happens to me with my current iMac intel, which has 2 firewire drives connected to it (one 800 and one 400).

When the firewire drives randomly spin it, it sometimes makes my iMac stall a bit. Like the beach-ball will sometimes even come up, but otherwise it just like it freezes a split second while it's bringing the hard drive back up the speed.

Why does it do that, and is there anyway around it?

It makes using an external drive frustrating and hurts the beautiful mac experience.

I have 4GB of memory, very fast computer otherwise, so it's not that.

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May 8, 2009

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Feb 18, 2010

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3) However, the computer I'm working on has never been configured to use timemachine so it doesn't know about my backups. (backups were made using a loaner computer).

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Sep 19, 2010

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Oct 24, 2009

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Apr 9, 2009

I have a hard drive that I connect to my computer via an IDE to USB adapter. It works quite well, most of the time. A couple days ago I tried copying a large file to the drive (which is in FAT-16 I think) and the copy froze after 28 MB. The hard drive failed to eject, so I just disconnected it without ejecting. After I dismissed the device removal warning, I immediately plugged the HD back in and opened disk utility. I tried to reformat it, but the computer froze and my screen dimmed and the warning came up telling me to reboot in several different languages.

Now, whenever I plug in the hard drive, it is not acknowledged by the computer at all. I always end up unplugging it after a couple minutes. After I unplug it, a folder with the name of the drive (which happens to be "untitled") appears on the desktop, but I can't do anything with it. This folder is classified as a disk and it is acknowledged by Disk Utility. A couple minutes after I disconnect the HD, Mac OS X always quits and I have to reboot. How can I repair this hard drive? How can I get Disk Utility to acknowledge it?

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