>on my peeceez, I buy a drive, find a cable and power floating around in >the machine and connect the drive. the drive hangs loose. I can clone >the C drive in a very short time. I then just pull and label the drive >and put it in a stack with other drives. can this be done with an iMac? >I know there is no room in that case. but are there cables and power >floating around? took forever to write to the external, and I know she'll >over write it.
Google on "iMac replace hard drive" and you will see why you do not want to open your wife's computer. Step one involves using suction cups to pull the glass off the front of the computer. USB or FireWire is so much easier. If it took forever to write to the external drive then you probably don't have high-speed USB. >I know its got to be tight inside the little box. I don't understand how >they cool the processor. I have not opened the thing to look >inside(wife's computer) and do not hear any fans running. There are two fairly large squirrel cage fans. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
