Trouble using CCC

uwbill · Sep 15th, 2005, 05:59 AM

I've finally decided to make a bootable copy onto my extenal harddrive, so I followed most people's advice to get CCC, however, I can't get it working for some reason.

Here's my setup:

I have a 120G Firewire external HD, it's partitioned into 3 paritions, two in NTFS format and 1 in FAT32. On that FAT32 partition, there is a sparseimage (backup for my powerbook). After connecting the external HD to my Mac Mini, it mounts all 3 partitions on desktop just fine. But after launching CCC, when choosing the Target Disk, the FAT32 partition is not shown at all. The only choice under 'Target Disk' is my Home folder on Mini.

Anyone has any clue what's happening at all???

Thank you very much!!!

TroutMaskReplica · Sep 15th, 2005, 10:47 AM

CCC doesn't support fat32? that would be my guess.

fat32 is windows files system. i don't know why you'd back up your mac to a windows files system. a .dmg or sparseimage would work on fat32, but you can't clone your entire OS X system to fat32 and expect it to work, let alone be bootable.

MacME · Sep 15th, 2005, 11:01 AM

bootable backup needs Mac HFS+ journaled, no? i just used the Disk Utility in OSX to make my bootable backup.

mikef · Sep 15th, 2005, 12:55 PM

What TMR said...

uwbill · Sep 15th, 2005, 03:16 PM

hmm... but i tried to create a sparseimage on that partition, and mount it, CCC wouldn't pick it up either. Also, the sparseimage I created using Disk Utility with 128bit encryption doesn't seem to expand at all... any clue?

also, i thought about reformatting that partition to Mac format (is HFS+ the Mac Journaled format?), but in Disk Utility, when I select the parition and click Erase, all there is in the drop down menu is MS-Dos... why why why?

All in a sudden, everything seems not to work under Tiger.

TroutMaskReplica · Sep 15th, 2005, 05:17 PM

i'd erase the entire drive and start over, using HFS+ journalled. i'd partition the disc into two or three parts but i'd keep them all as HFS+. forget the sparseimage and create a bootable clone of your powerbook to one partition, and your mini to the other.

uwbill · Sep 15th, 2005, 05:27 PM

Yeah... thinking about doing that too. Just need to figure out where/how I can format it to HFS+ Journalled format...

jtmac · Sep 15th, 2005, 06:40 PM

Disk Utility will do the job for 'ya uwbill

TroutMaskReplica · Sep 16th, 2005, 10:53 AM

	Quote:
	Yeah... thinking about doing that too. Just need to figure out where/how I can format it to HFS+ Journalled format...

as jtmac says, disk utility is the program you want to use.

select the drive in the left panel, and click on erase. then click the partition tab and you should be able to create the HFS partitions. you must click on the drive, not the individual volume names before you do the erase, or it will only erase that partition.

uwbill · Sep 16th, 2005, 06:16 PM

I did some research, guess the problem is you can NOT have both HFS and NTFS/FAT32 partitions on the same hard disk! The parition table has to be in Apple format if an HFS partition is going to be created, but then NTFS/FAT32 will not be able to be created on that disk if the partition table is created by Apple.... so... I guess I won't be able to backup to this HD unless I'm willing to delete all these files i have on the NTFS partitions.... sucks