The hard drive on my dual-boot iMac is about to crash. Nobody seems to be offering free Mac hardware advice online anymore, so can anyone on the list advise me? It's a 38 GB drive w. ca. 8 GB of data on it. I need to both recover the data (hopefully in one seamless lump) and replace the drive. Your thoughts?
Hey Andrew,
Go to a dealer and get one of those newer LaCie Firewire drives (they're not expensive and have a good rating). 'tach it to your Mac, copy over the stuff you think you'll need either by dragging from the Finder or with Carbon Copy Cloner. Then install Panther fresh (and OS 9 if really needed), do all the online updates, and then reconstitute your applications and data area.
Otherwise you'll have to burn many CD's to hold the 8 Gigs of data. That's a real bother. I know because I used to do that.
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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