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Scary problem after successful clone
I had completed a successful clone of my Mac OS yesterday (10.4.11) and confirmed by booting from the drive. I then switched my startup disk back to the internal and everything worked fine. Now, however, (and this is where I need help) every time I boot my computer (the external backup isn't hooked up BTW) the computer can't find an OS and a folder with a "?" comes up against a white screen as the computer boots. If I hold down "D" everything is fine since I'm telling the computer to look for the OS on the disk but I really want it to look there automatically again. I have rebooted 5-6 times now and the problem consistently happens. The only thing I've done on the computer is the super duper clone so I believe that processed started the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions or has had this happen to them before?
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Are you sure you've set your startup drive to your internal using the Startup Disk Preference Pane?
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Yes, I believe so. I figured that after setting my startup drive back to the internal drive for boot once and then restart, it should remember my settings? Is there something else that I need to do to tell the computer to always look there first?
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I can't see why it would give a ? unless, perhaps, the drive is taking a long time to actually spin up.
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What I don't get is that if I set the startup drive back to the internal and then tell it from the pref pane to restart it'll find the OS just fine. Where it fouls up is when I try to do a normal reboot; it's only then that I get the "?"
(thanks for the help by the way) |
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Yes - perhaps that's when the drive is taking longer to spin up...
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