John, the not-yet-dead drive in this Mac is a 500-gigger. Big enough, I suppose, to be useful in an external enclosure for archiving something. Or something.
Hey, I just dropped by the Apple website to see if I could pick up any pointers on using Time Machine, and it appears that one does not actually have to install Leopard on a new hard drive first in order to summon up a complete backup of a dead drive (including its OS) from Time Machine. Here is the webpage, and the tip is #14 on the FAQ list: <http://tinyurl.com/nqf4t6> It says there that you need only insert a Leopard installer disk and boot the Mac from it, and then invoke a utility on that disk called "Restore from Backups" to prompt Time Machine to call up a complete restore of a drive. So, with two drives backed up in Time Machine, I should be able to boot from the OS installer disk twice, and each time restore the contents of an old drive to its new replacement drive. 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
