HD clone is failing with CCC and DU.

I am trying to clone my HD and failing. Looking for any help or pointers.

I am running 10.4.11 on imac 7.1, 2.4GHz core 2 duo, with 4GB ram. 20in monitor from mid 2007.

I am cloning my HD to a Wester Digital 1.8 TB HD with 5 partitions. The info for the drive is below.

I set up the partitions on the drive using Disk Utility and that seems to work fine.

I then tried to clone the drive using DU. That failed, only copying a small fraction of the internal HD. The error messages were not verbose.

I then tried to clone my internal drive with "Data Backup". I was able to make a clone of the drive, but when I tried to boot off it I got a "kernel panic" error message. These are described in detail on this page, the exact screen shot shown on the page is what I saw, with the "you need to restart your computer" message.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2063/_index.html

I then tried to clone the internal hard drive onto the external drive partition (BU2 in the notes bellow) using Carbon Copy Clone. Again, I was able to clone my hard drive with no error messages. But when I try to boot off this partition (by restarting and holding the option key and selecting the partition I want to boot from ) I get the same kernel panic.

After rebooting from my standard internal hard drive I get an error report on the kernel panic, also shown below. I looked up the only part of the kernel panic error message that looked non-generic bdevvp failed on google. Sounds like the error is occurring at a very low level having to do with vnode.

my question is, where do I go from here? Anyone think this is problem with external HD? Should I be doing to boot differently?

I don't speak kernel so I have no idea what all the 0xhex messages mean but I take it the boot is failing at some very basic level of the operating system.

Any advice welcome.

My overall goal is to upgrade my operating system to snow leopard, and then beyond if I can. But before I do that I want a bootable copy of my HD in case that does not work. I have the snow leopard DVD.

Any advice or help greatly appreciated.

This is the information about my external drive. Is it some how setup wrong for booting? Should I be using a different drive?

My Book 1110:

Capacity: 1.82 TB

Removable Media: Yes

Detachable Drive: Yes

BSD Name: disk1

Version: 20.18

Bus Power (mA): 500

Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Western Digital

OS9 Drivers: No

Product ID: 0x1110

Serial Number: 574341565934373537303333

S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported

Vendor ID: 0x1058

Volumes:

Macintosh HD:

Capacity: 372.35 GB

Available: 151.9 GB

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk1s2

Mount Point: /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1

BU2:

Capacity: 372.35 GB

Available: 152.37 GB

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk1s3

Mount Point: /Volumes/BU2

BU3:

Capacity: 372.35 GB

Available: 372.25 GB

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk1s4

Mount Point: /Volumes/BU3

BU4:

Capacity: 372.35 GB

Available: 372.25 GB

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk1s5

Mount Point: /Volumes/BU4

BU5:

Capacity: 372.15 GB

Available: 372.06 GB

Writable: Yes

File System: Journaled HFS+

BSD Name: disk1s6

This is the panic report I get when I try to boot of the BU2 partition:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001D4798): bdevvp failed: open

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

0x46d73df8 : 0x128d0d (0x3cc65c 0x46d73e1c 0x131f95 0x0)

0x46d73e38 : 0x1d4798 (0x3d5840 0x1 0x46d73e84 0x0)

0x46d73e98 : 0x1d482d (0xe000006 0x4d8c00 0x46d73ed8 0x34e614)

0x46d73ed8 : 0x31ebd8 (0x58b8f80 0x1 0x46d73f8c 0x20)

0x46d73fa8 : 0x1371c6 (0x0 0x7 0x0 0x4b2000)

0x46d73fc8 : 0x19b21c (0x0 0xffffffff 0x19e02a 0x0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386

Model: iMac7,1, BootROM IM71.007A.B03, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, ATI,RadeonHD2600, PCIe, 256 MB

Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz

Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 2 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz

AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x88), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (4.170.46.9)

Bluetooth: Version 1.9.5f4, 2 service, 0 devices, 1 incoming serial ports

Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1

Serial ATA Device: WDC WD3200AAJS-40RYA0, 298.09 GB

Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-85J

USB Device: My Book 1110, Western Digital, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA

USB Device: Built-in iSight, Apple Inc., Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA

USB Device: IR Receiver, Apple Computer, Inc., Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 500 mA

USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, Apple, Inc., Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA

USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 500 mA

USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA

USB Device: Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 250 mA

Here is what I could find about bdevvp

bdevvp(dev, vpp)

Create a vnode for a block device. bdevvp() is used for root

file systems, swap areas and for memory file system special

devices.