Problem

[joemac]

Originally Posted by dnanian

That's right, this process should work fine. Alternatively, of course, you could have simply used SuperDuper! to restore, right?

Restoring with SD! is going to roughly defragment. Restoring the way you're doing it won't...

ok now i'm confused.

how am i doing it that is correct?

i though i was "using superduper! to restore?

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so the restore process goes on for about 90 minutes....

then it appears to stop/stick or become non responsive...

(fire wire light stops blinking, mouse and all screen command are dead, blue bar stops moving, and forced quitting doesn't work)

so after 2 hours i've turned OFF the laptop, disconnected the fire wire/sd! clone and rebooted from the leopard disc.

open disc utilities again and 'verify' the new hard drive...

-about 36 gb (of 50) on the drive and about 1 million files transferred (out of 1.4 million)

-verify runs and checks the journaled volume, extended overflow files, catalog files, mulitlinked files, catalog hierarchy and declares this stuff is ...

"volume ok" in green letters.

BUT the restore isn't complete and the laptop won't boot from the internal harddrive...

SO WHAT DID I DO WRONG?

(i'll erase, format and load a CLEAN FRESH copy of leopard while waiting 4 a reply)

looks like i'll try restore/migration with time machine now.

cheers
joemac