Re: TO ALL CARBONCOPYCLONERS AND SUPERDUPERS! on INTEL

[David Roth Weiss] "If you do a full install make certain to clone your system drive to an outboard firewire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner so that you don't have to worry about the possibility of blowing away anything you might later regret. That should at least alieve any fears you have and should allow you to proceed with confidence if you find it necessary to go that route."


I was going to make this is a warning in a full post, but since you brought it up I'll post it here. I found this out the hard way (while I am in Shanghai by the way, insert your favorite Shanghaied pun here) but you must make sure that when you format your hard drives, the the partition scheme is set to GUID instead of APM (Apple Partition Map). THIS GOES FOR EVERY DRIVE YOU WANT TO USE AND WORK NORMALLY FROM ON YOUR INTEL MAC THAT HAS OSX ON IT. I didn't have my internal cloned drive set up properly and had some trouble running the firmware update. After cloning my drive to my properly formatted back up drive, and then cloning back, everything is working as normal. Supposedly, OSX won't boot (or most likely) install to an APM formatted drive if you are running an intel machine. Obviously, mine booted OSX as an APM formatted drive, but it was from a clone and not a disk install. This recent firmware update brought this to life for me and the Apple support forums set me straight.

To make sure your partition is setup properly, go to the disk utility and click on your drive then click the partition tab. Then click the options button toward the bottom and see which partition format is selected.

Jeremy