[G4] Question about Firewire enclosure / hard drive

[Thomas Brooks]

Michelle:
One last suggestion since you are now well on your way to a solution.

Once you have formatted and installed an OS your new Hard Drive use 
Carbon Copy Cloner <http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html> to make 
an exact copy of your existing 27GB on your new drive. If your old 
drive fails or becomes unreadable you can just make the new drive your 
startup drive, expand the CCC disk image and you will be back to work 
immediately. If the old drive can be reformatted and repaired you can 
transfer the CCC file back to it. If old drive is unusable you can then 
replace it with another new drive and start over again. It is easy to 
make either drive your startup by using the Startup Disk Preference 
pane. Run CCC periodically to back up one drive to the other and you 
will always be covered.

You may already know all of this. I learned the hard way when my 
original 10GB disk got corrupted an I almost lost all my data.

Tom

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On Jun 1, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Michelle wrote:

> Sorry if I didn't explain right... again, the "lingo" is unfamiliar to 
> me. I am NOT getting the (faster, better?) SATA internal hard drive at 
> this time. In part due to $$ and the need for the additional "card" to 
> make it work, etc.
>
> I am getting the other one... I think it is called "PATA"... even 
> though it may not be super fast, it will be a huge improvement over my 
> puny, tiny 27GB hard drive that I have now, the one that came w/the 
> Sawtooth when I bought it, used, years ago.
>
> It's really the additional hard disk space that I need right now, and 
> at a bargain-basement price!
>
> Thanks,
> Michelle
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