Its a relatively simple process to just buy another hard drive and use the manufacturers software on a bootable floppy to clone your original ,Freshly installed drive, to the new one. I've done that with older redundant small (9 gb) drives and just put them in a cupboard. It means if I now have a drive failure, which is not uncommon for some reason , I can just plug in a reserve drive and I've a complete O/S up and running in less than 10 minutes. All work in progress is on a separate drive as are the archive files plus of course the removable drives with archive duplicates. Regards
Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England .TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For transparencies from digital files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Barstow" Subject: Re: [PRODIG] Computer problems > Andrew > > the ubiquitous <<DiskWarrior >> from Alsoft seems to do the job more often > than most disc utilities, currently it has to be run from OS9 [by > starting up from the CD itself], nonetheless it seemed to do a good job of > keeping an X volume in trim here. > > full X version coming soon. > > I'd recommend partitioning your drives and occasionally <clone> the OSX > partition so you have a fallback to a system that worked. > > Actually, I'd recommend cloning a new OSX install with applications too, > end never overwriting it. So you can then always go back - but not quite as > inconveniently as going back to square 1. > > Then, you might like to have another partition to copy across the > currently working X partition, perhaps weekly. > > Sounds complex. > > Takes a bit of understanding but it's all worthwhile - if it saves time > and frustration. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
