[DM-MUG] why will restore from backup not complete?

[Ray Bowler]

Makes sense. It used to be simple to run a 
program which would check that but with the large 
drives it takes longer. If what I am doing 
continues to fail that will be something to try.

At 8:38 PM -0500 4/6/06, Alan Hansen wrote:
>Ray,
>
>It sounds like your hard drive is/or is about to fail.  It can't
>successfully write to part of your hard drive.  You can try running disk
>utility and have it zero out the drive .  This takes hours to complete
>usually but if it hangs or crashes trying to do that then you know that the
>drive is failed.
>
>Thanks,
>Alan
>
>On 4/6/06 8:24 PM, "Ray Bowler" <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  Any thought as to the why of the following would be appreciated.
>>
>>  Wed. evening my spouse's iBook froze and I ran DiskWarrior to rebuilt
>>  the directory. DW then froze wile attempting to write the optimize
>>  directory to the HD. I stopped it, rebooted and tried DW again. Same
>>  thing.
>>
>>  So I decided to be safe rather than use a possible defective
>>  directory on my main drive. I had a backup from Tues night which I
>>  had made before upgrading to 10.4.6. I erased the internal HD and
>>  used SuperDuper  to restore from the backup. That locked up about
>>  halfway through. A second try with the same result. I used Disk
>>  Utility Restore feature to restore after again erasing. Locked up
>>  about 40% of the way through. Tried again with the same result. Then
>>  used a second backup( backups are nice) with Disk utility and the
>>  same result. Any ideas about why they will not complete the restore?
>>
>>  I am trying a restore from the second backup using SuperDuper. If it
>>  doesn't work I will reinstall Tiger with the erase and install option
>>  and use Migration Assistant to bring over her user files.
>
>
>
>
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