Cloned HD won't boot

jacko0526 · Mar 14th, 2010, 05:05 PM

Hello everyone,

I have a powerPC G4 mac mini. I cloned an external HD (Seagate 500G foor MAC) to use as my bootable drive because there was hardly any space on the original mini. Everything has been working fine for the past year. I recently blew a fuse in my apartment and when I tried to fix it from the breaker I blew a circuit inside the enclosure. I took the Seagate drive to Futureshop and they were able to retrieve all of my information and save the HD itself. I went out and purchased a Macally enclosure with a firewire port that is compatible with Mac OSX. The mini recognizes the external drive and all of my info is still on there but I can't boot from it anymore. I've tried a couple of thing to rectify the issue

1. System preferences - start up drive - selected the external drive as the drive to restart from. Computer restarts but not from the external

2. I held down the option key while the mini loaded up and waited for the screen to pop up that allows you to choose which drive to boot from. The external drive is NOT recognized as a bootable drive from there

3. I have reinstalled leopard on the external HD and tried steps 1 & 2 again but it still did not work.

Has anyone had this issue before? Any suggestions?

Thanks

monokitty · Mar 14th, 2010, 05:08 PM

Likely directory level corruption of the hard drive - meaning it needs to be reformatted to fix it (you would lose all the data). Back up the external, reformat, restore data and boot.

jacko0526 · Mar 14th, 2010, 05:13 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Lars
	Likely directory level corruption of the hard drive - meaning it needs to be reformatted to fix it (you would lose all the data). Back up the external, reformat, restore data and boot.

Thanks for the quick response. I'll try that