![]() ![]() I put the original HD back in - works fine - and am awaiting some online suggs to see if I can overcome this debacle. everything was copescetic: nothing to repair. I inserted the original OS distribution CD, to invoke the Disk Utility. until the thing heated up so badly that the fan turned on, and I killed it. just stopped at the gray Apple screen, with the gear screwing around. ![]() I guess I did succeed in restoring them, but then I was unable to boot up at all. Since I am a Power PC, iMac G5, Leopard OS (v10.5.6) and do have the Time Machine, I decided to try restoring the *.kext files from backup. I tried to visit this forum to see what others were saying about it, but the PPP.kext file was one of the missing ones, and I was unable to establish an Inet connection (yes, Virginia, I am still using a stinking dial-up connectivity "solution"). I DON'T have a firewire, so the cloner took 6 hours to do the deed via my Mac's USB 2.0 port, which yielded about a half-dozen messages stating that *.kext files were "not installed, or installed improperly" messages. I had a similar problem (wanting to clone my 250GB HD to a 1TB, then place the larger drive in the enclosure). ![]()
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