on 16/08/04 00:36, John at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, I need some advice here. My hard drive in my iceBook quit on me > about a month ago. Machine wouldn't boot from the drive, but I could > boot from the install CD, but drive setup couldn't see the HD. I was > playing around with it tonight, and I started it up, and while it was > trying to boot I kept rapping with my knuckles on the bottom of the > machine right under the hard drive. After about three times it began the > boot process and started normally. Now, I know that is "band-aid" thing > and the drive is on the way out, so I would like to somehow back up the > contents of the drive to my Sawtooth over my network. How can I do this? > I tried ( on the iBook) to make a disc image under disc utility, but > when I did, it gave me an error "device is busy". What am I doing wrong? > Or is there a better way? I don't have an external drive that I can > connect to it, but I really need to come up with a way to do this so I > can simply restore after I replace the drive, and not have to start all > over from scratch. Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated!
I'm not 100% sure but I think that Carbon Copy Cloner can make a disk image of an OS X partition... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] flamage /flay'm*j/ n.: [very common] Flaming verbiage, esp. high-noise, low-signal postings to Usenet or other electronic fora. Often in the phrase `the usual flamage'. `Flaming' is the act itself; `flamage' the content; a `flame' is a single flaming message. See flame, also dahmum. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
