Come to think of it, Bruce, both drives, the dead one and the one still running, have (had) bootable 10.5s on them. Which means that when Time Machine restores the second drive, it will bring in another OS on top of the freshly installed one. I wonder if that will be a problem.
Will the two OSs on the same drive fight with each other, or is TM smart enough to combine them, or eliminate one? John, thanks for the advice on buying drives, but I'm too lazy right now to hunt around for hot deals on new ones, and OWC has always been a reliable company, so I just up and ordered up two of these 1-TB ones from them: <http://tinyurl.com/dec2kl>. There is a cheaper version of the same drive offered there ($87 vs. $139, see <http://tinyurl.com/ mjm49f>), but you get what you pay for and this model has a 5 year warranty and they brag about a million hours and more before it croaks. So I splurged a little, and with 2-day delivery I ought to be back in business pretty soon (unless I get all tangled up in Time Machine for some reason. . . .). The drive that died, by the way, was a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda, which was in this used G5 (dual 2.0) when I bought it off eBay. No telling how much use it had before I got it, but since the owner was a video editor using Final Cut Pro, I suspect it was a lot. Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
