Re: Is this fair charge/restriction for HD back-up, supposedly a flat fee?

[Ken Poppers]

How do you run your computer from an external HD?  What would I have to 
do to make that work?  I have a iMac DV SE (graphite) with  a 12 gb HD. 
 Most frustrating!
On Feb 18, 2004, at 9:57 AM, J Patrick Draine wrote:

Janet,
As I started to read your post my first thought was: you should have 
had an external HD for backup anyway
and as an alternate boot HD. This wouldn't fix a bad logicboard, but 
is something you should do as a reasonable precaution. Check dealmac 
for reasonable deals on FireWire external HDs.  I've been running my 
iMac from an external AcomData FireWire HD for nearly 2 years now, 
because the internal is so damned noisy (though the tech at CompUSA 
claimed it was within the "normal" range -- sigh). Their prices are 
pretty reasonable.
Beyond that, yeah, it's ridiculous that they want to charge you more 
than the agreed price. Have they actually already wiped your internal 
HD? If not, decline the service (& get your money back), get an 
external HD, install a recent operating system on it, and do the 
backup yourself.

Patrick

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