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DW can't help if the disk won't mount at all. Click Click Click is very bad
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On 1/8/04 9:55 AM, "Trueman H. Hight" <thight at cris.com> wrote:

>> I have decided that I need to start doing regular backups of some of
>> my critical data, but when I looked at my "users folder" for example
>> I realized that it was about 6 gig so backing up to rewritable CD's
>> is not a good option.  I recently purchased a 120 gig external
>> firewire drive for my digital video files but I don't want to use
>> this space to back up my main hard drive.  I could purchase a
>> rewritable DVD drive or I could purchase another harddrive.  Do
>> people have preferences?  I have a Quicksilver G4, dual 1Ghz machine
>> which I hope to keep for some time.  Should I investigate installing
>> a USB 2.0 or Firewire 800 card and then buy a new harddrive for my
>> video?  I could then use the 120 gig firewire 400 as my backup.  Are
>> there huge advantages to using rewritable DVD's for backup?  Any
>> advice would be most welcome.
>> 
>> Doug Mitchell
> 
> Last week I tried to start up my G4 Dual and all I could get from the
> HD  was a click-click-click. I tried everything I could think of but
> nothing worked. I wasn't too worried about my files as I had them
> backed up on a Maxtor 80 gig external HD.  I replaced the HD on the
> computer, reinstalled the system and the apps. I wanted to wait until
> I had plenty of time to reinstall the backed up material. Well, I am
> sure you have already guessed what happened. This morning I started
> up the computer and low and behold the external HD with all the
> backed-up material began to click-click-click. Nothing I have tried
> has helped.
> I ordered Disk Warrior and will try that.  All I know is that in the
> future I will rely on removable media and duplicate copies of those
> real important files.
> 
> Trueman Hight