Disk Utility error when restoring a drive to another drive: Error 6

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Disk Utility error when restoring a drive to another drive: Error 6

"Device not configured."

I have a 24" iMac with a 250gig hard drive, and a firewire enclosure with a 160 gig hard drive. The iMac has a windows partition that I am trying to back up on the firewire drive, so that I can repartition and make the windows section bigger, but I keep getting errors when trying to restore.

If I uncheck erase destination, and then click restore, it starts to copy for a few minutes, but after 2-3 gigs of copying I get another error:

"Restore Failure An error (2) occurred while copying. No such file or directory"

This happens again and again and again and again. Any ideas?

24" iMac, 7600GT, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Apr 13, 2008 9:49 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 14, 2008 9:11 PM in response to Rob Anonymous

Okay, so nobody responded so far. Awesome.

So instead I tried to make a disk image file (dmg) using disk utility, and after 20 minutes I get:

Unable to create "diske03s3.dmg", -Input output error.

***.

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Answer 2

BDAqua

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Apr 14, 2008 11:23 PM in response to Rob Anonymous

What APP/method are you using to back up that parition?

What format is the external drive, and what does Disk Utility say that Windows Partition is?

Errors 2 & 6 make no sense here as OS errors, as far as I can tell, those are old 68K error codes, so the must be peculiar to what you are using.

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Answer 3

Apr 15, 2008 2:58 PM in response to BDAqua

I'm just using disk utility.

The external drive has 2 partitions. One formatted in FAT32, the other in Mac Os Extended (whatever the normal mac one is). It's connected via firewire. If I try to restore to either drive, I get the 'no such file or directory'.

If I try to make a .dmg file of my windows partition on my main hard drive, I get an i/o error. This is making the .dmg straight to my desktop, not even using the firewire drive.

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Answer 4

Apr 15, 2008 4:30 PM in response to Rob Anonymous

Please help! Someone! Please! Why am I getting i/o errors on a perfectly good disk?

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Answer 5

BDAqua

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Apr 15, 2008 5:59 PM in response to Rob Anonymous

If I try to make a .dmg file of my windows partition on my main hard drive, I get an i/o error. This is making the .dmg straight to my desktop, not even using the firewire drive.

Depending on size of the Windows Partition, that may not work and isn't exactly a good idea... what size are the 4 partitions?

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Answer 6

Apr 19, 2008 7:42 PM in response to BDAqua

Ignore the whole windows aspect. I'm trying to make an image file of a partition, and it's giving me an error. My drive checks out fine according to SMART and disk utility, so why am I getting an error?

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Answer 7

Jul 7, 2008 12:47 PM in response to Rob Anonymous

I am having this same issue with "error 6" and Restore Failure An error (2) occurred while copying. No such file or directory".
My internal HD in my macbook pro is failing according to SMART. I tried to restore the internal drive to my external firewire disk (a seagate 300g). Same thing happened as above 20 - 30 minutes into the restore. About 4 gig were transfered.
Please help. I have a new internal drive on the way; but I need this backup completed.

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Answer 8

The hatter

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Jul 7, 2008 12:52 PM in response to Rob Anonymous

What you want is WinClone 2.x
http://www.twocanoes.com

Works with FAT and NTFS partitions. Useful for moving a Windows partition to another drive and useful if you need to install a larger drive or just reformat.

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Answer 9

ChrisFog

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Jul 8, 2008 7:50 AM in response to Rob Anonymous

I had this problem, turned out that Disk Utility wasn't happy that i only had 1.5GB space left, went ahead and deleated app. 5 more gigs and it worked fine after that. The error message is useless though, would be nice if it was more informative

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BDAqua

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Jul 8, 2008 11:37 AM in response to ChrisFog

Hi Chris, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

Great/helpful/informative 1st post... WOW, keep up the good work, hope to see more of you here! 🙂

Yeah, less than 10 GB or 20% is asking for trouble.

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Answer 11

Jul 8, 2008 12:28 PM in response to Russ Prescott1

Thanks for the different responses. Just a few more details. My internal hd is only using 63 of 100g.
So I don't think the disk space issue for disk utility would be the answer to my particular problem. I have also tried using superduper to back up this same drive; however, it would not complete the task either. Would it be better to just back up the user folders separately and maybe the applications folder and then just use the mac os dvd's to install on my new drive? ( I don't guess backing up the applications folder would do any good; they would have to all be reinstalled. ) Just trying to find a way to get this done without having to do to much reinstall work. Any other ideas?

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