Re: Carbon Copy Cloner question

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<eckleinspammenot-A32BAC.17352010022005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ernie Klein <eckleinspammenot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <100220051337282799%tmcdanel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Terry McDanel <tmcdanel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > I tried cloner one laptop to another.  It seemed to copy fine but when
> > i booted the newly cloned laptop the users were not listed.  There was
> > only one user called Other... with some unidentifiable password.  When
> > i T-booted it to look at the volume contents, i could see all the
> > original users in the Users folder. 
> 
> I use CCC all the time at School and it works fine.
> 
> It sounds like some of the files didn't get replaced by CCC.  That can 
> happen if the HD contains old data when using CCC.
> 
> I assume you are putting the 2nd laptop into the target mode and 
> connecting the two via a firewire cable.  You should then use the disk 
> utility on the 1st laptop to erase the hard drive of the 2nd before 
> running CCC.  I never get a 'clean' clone if I fail to do that (a 'rm 
> -rf * on the /Volumes/mounted_laptop' from the command line works also, 
> but it is safer to use the disk util).

CCC is great.

But, I second Ernie's advice... I had problems or wound up with
non-bootable disks when I didn't initialize the target disk before
cloning.

Here's another tip... Even if you have root enabled, run CCC from an
admin user account.  I had problems with permissions when I ran it once
as root.

  -- Sally

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Sally Shears (a.k.a. "Molly")
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