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Try making the volume copies while booted from your install DVD.

Not really a good idea to try and copy a changing volume.

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I may have found another way out. Drive Genius claims to have a cloner, and it does see my HD's volume when booted off of, unlike the Leopard installer disk. Hopefully I can successfully clone my startup volume to one of my FW disks while booted off Drive Genuis, and restore from that. Egad, what a gotcha.

Hi Alien, Leopard's Disk Utility (when booted off the Installer Disk) doesn't see my StartUp Disk; it's sees my G5's generic Maxtor drive, but not my named startup volume on it, so no cloning or repair are available; the options are greyed out for the drive.

Booted off Drive Genius, the named volume is available, however I couldn't clone the drive. Drive Genius's cloning tool failed, reporting the overlapping extants as the cause.

I just don't remember the recovery procedure for extants being this difficult. Clone the startup disk to FW disk, boot FW disk, clone back to startup disk; back to work. Discouraging.


One thing I'll say for the much maligned (and probably rightly so, although I never had a problem with it) Norton Utilities Disk Dr. was that it would at least name the overlapping files and offer to alias them somewhere for a later decision.

If the overlapped files were part of some useless tmp files or browser cache junk that could be deleted, then delete them I did, problem solved. If the files in question were some possibly obscure system file that shouldn't be futzed with, that was a different story.

No tools on the market today that I know of actually identifies the overlapping filenames, one just gets a fairly useless file number.

Okay, looks like your volume si deteriorating fast.

You made a clone, earlier, right? You're just not sure if Migration Manager will accept it as a source?

I'd say cut your losses and do a clean install. If Migration Manager doesn't work with the clone, you can always reinstall apps (never a bad idea), manually copy over your user directory and rectify ownership on the files within.

,xtG
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Well, this isn't a workflow. Drive Genius reports exactly two overlapped files before failing. Booting into SU mode and del-ing the files via the tasty link @ Apple, then rebooting DG, re-running DG-Verify to find yet two more overlapped file numbers. The tool would be more helpful if it continued on listing all overlaps.

I could be at this all day. fsck hasn't found any overlapped extents, so I don't know what the heck's going on.