Restoring main hard drive

[Estuary]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Hm. Perhaps the internal disk is read only. Try erasing it with Disk Utility, *then* restore.

OK, I tried that, and SuperDuper told me the restore was successful, including the ability to boot. But when I rebooted from the main HD, I got the "kernel panic" screen. So it looks like a hardware problem. I'm thinking of bringing the machine into the Apple store for servicing. If anyone has any ideas before I do that, I'd love to hear them.

[dnanian]

But no kernel panic when you're running from the backup drive. Hm. It's possible that the internal drive is causing continued problems, and corruption there is what's generating the panic. Weird, though.

[Estuary]

Originally Posted by dnanian

But no kernel panic when you're running from the backup drive. Hm. It's possible that the internal drive is causing continued problems, and corruption there is what's generating the panic. Weird, though.

So if it's corruption, do you think reinstalling Leopard might work?

[dnanian]

No: I mean corruption of the drive that's occurring during or after copying.

[Estuary]

I've just picked up my iMac from Apple repair. It was a hard drive failure. They replaced the drive, I booted from my backup and restored. 90 minutes later, it's as if there was never a problem.

Thank you, SuperDuper!!! To anyone reading this who's considering buying SuperDuper, do not hesitate! I am in no way a techie; SuperDuper was easy to set up, Dave's support is amazing, and the entire experience far exceeded my expectations.

[dnanian]

Hey, great: it defintely seemed like there was something quite wrong with the old drive. Glad you're all restored!

[Estuary]

So, my computer's working fine now, and I've resumed automated backups using SuperDuper! The problem is, when I open SD, I get a message:

"SuperDuper! cannot find target volume "Macintosh HD". Please attach or mount the volume named "Macintosh HD." If you can't find this volume, or it was erased outside SuperDuper!, click Cancel."

Since I'm now backing up from the computer's internal hard drive, which Finder says is named Macintosh HD, SD must have assigned some special identifier to the computer's old internal hard drive.

How can I made SD stop giving me this message?