Hi Phil,
It may be difficult for Andrew to find a LaCie FW drive in the size he needs. The smallest desktop drive still available is 80GB ($129.00), but there aren't that many of those still around. (OWC doesn't carry it anymore.) But sure, if he can find one of those online or locally, I think it's definitely worth the extra $29 to get twice the storage capacity. Plus it looks slick.
On the downside, it doesn't appear to come with any backup software, and Retrospect Express will make Andrew's job a lot easier. (Carbon Copy Cloner might work, too, but Andrew has a lot of OS 9 stuff and I don't know how well CCC handles that.)
Anyway, the OWC Neptune drive I recommended is also a very reliable drive. The point is, Andrew, get a FireWire drive ASAP and rescue your data!
I would quibble just a little with Phil's suggested order, though. I would *first* install Panther on the pristine FireWire HD (and do the online updates) and *then* worry about moving data over from the internal HD. I would also, wherever possible, reinstall applications from the original installation CDs and/or VersionTracker downloads instead of just copying them from your existing HD.
Good luck, Andrew.
- Darcy
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On 21 May 2004, at 01:31 PM, Philip Aker wrote:
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 08:54 America/Vancouver, Andrew Stiller wrote:
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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