[Ti] 80 GB suggestion

[Steve Wozniak]

At 3:18 PM -0800 2003.04.04, Paul Russell wrote:
>Also, based on recent experiences, I don't have 100% faith in Carbon Copy Cloner. When I bought my new Big Al recently I put it in FireWire disk mode and used CCC from my old TiBook to copy the old hard disk to the new one. This appeared to work OK but the result was a mess that wouldn't even boot (couldn't find /etc/master.passwd) so evidently the clone was not perfect. In the end I re-installed 10.2.4 on the Big Al and then spent hours moving apps, prefs, etc (if you thought this kind of things was a mess in Mac OS 9 then wait until you try it in OS X !). I'm now _almost_ confident enough to to wipe the drive on my old TiBook and put it on eBay, but it's been a harrowing process.

Come to think of it, when I used CCC to my 80 GB drive and started up, my Eudora font and Stickies font (and color) had changed. Who knows how many things happened that I'm not aware of...

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>Moral of the story: never have 100% faith in anything. ;-)

Amen.
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Steve  (is tv wake zone?)