Help! Can't boot from SD clone and my HD is about to die

[TyTy]

Really desperate here. I cloned my hard drive after my system started locking up, and I started getting scraping sounds coming from it, and disk utility started warning about fatal hardware errors. The clone was fine and I booted from it to check everything was alright then found I had the application quitting problem.

I came here and found the script to fix it, so I ran SD again after deleting the first clone with disk utility.

I now find that when I try to boot from the clone it doesn't get past the grey start up screen with the Apple logo.

I really need to sort this out as my internal drive is about to bite the dust. It could happen anytime.

Please Help!!!

[dnanian]

Can you boot in "Safe" boot (hold down Shift during startup)?

[TyTy]

Thanks for quick response. I'll try that and get back to you.

[TyTy]

Just tried Safe Boot and got the same result. I had looked in the Startup Disk system preference and the clone is showing up a valid startup disk.

[dnanian]

Perhaps try examining what's going on by booting in 'verbose' mode -- Cmd+Opt+v while starting from the backup.

[TyTy]

I tried booting in verbose mode and there seem to be several things failing.

What I managed to catch were a couple that said:

mDNSResponder[number]<Error>:ERROR :ndsserver_init: Bad file descriptor

mDNSResponder[number]<Error>aemon start :ndsserver_init failed

failed to add 192.168.2.1 to fw0, Device not configured

The above, amongst other messages seemed to keep repeating themselves.

All Chinese to me.