I'm sure you're going to get more informative answers than this ... but ... I'll gonna put in some advice .... I've learned the hard (and expensive) way.
Hevens to Betsy! Spring for the cost of a disk and postage when you buy software on the net. Sure as God made little apples (no pun intended), when you have a problem and/or need to reinstall ... it will be on the crashed disk .... After you've installed OS 8.6, sorted it all out. and all is 'Peachy Keen', you can spring for a CD-RW and make (burn) your own CD's. If you've 2 computers and 4 external disk drives you can just put a compressed copy on each one. Never forget Murphy's Law. ... Remember that 'Disaster Boot-Up Disk' you were going to make? ... AND DESPERATELY NEEDED ... just before you got around to it! While we're on the subject,, Make a File Folder and label it "Software Serial Numbers" ... Make a spread sheet and on it list every program you own. Name -Version- Serial # - Company name - Date of Purchase - Support line Phone # and their Email address. Hell, I even put the check number or Credit Card used to pay for it. Print it out and put it in the file. If you have more than one computer or disk drive put a copy on each ... ALSO. When things are crashing, nothing is working right, the sweat of frustration is pouring from your brow, blasphemous oaths rent the peaceful solitude of your domicile ... You won't be digging through the stacks of S/W boxes., note books and scraps of paper ... looking for the @#$%& Serial No./ Password/ Secret Oath/ Magic Spell ... to install Conflict Catcher, Norton Utilities or Disk Warrior. You learn from your misakes ... that's how I learened the wisdom of all these preventative measures, A slow learner, It took a couple of incidents envolving 2 AM .... looking at a crashed screen and contemplating going down stairs for the Smith & Wesson ... for some or this to soak in. RHB Wonder why AlGore make me remember the old "Baby Huey" cartoons? ******************************************* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Power Center Pro 180 with a G3 processor upgrade. Now I want to > upgrade my system from the original bundled 7.6.1 to 8.6 (I am afraid to go > to 9.x or X because most of my software is old). I was told that I had to > upgrade FWB Hard Disk Toolkit from the original bundled 2.0.5 to the > current 4.5 to do the system upgrade, so I purchased and dowloaded it > online. Originally tech support at FWB told my I could just update my > drivers and leave the hard disk data intact; now they say that because the > original version was earlier than 2.0.6, I will have to reformat my entire > hard drive., which I definitely do not want to do. They also told me that > the driver updates included on the new System installation disk will not > work because Apple does not support non-Apple drives (this drive is an IBM > DCAS-32160 S565A). Is that true? > -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
