[Ti] System Drive problem

[John Holt]

Better information has never been posted. Anyone who has information  
they consider important on their computer should have it backed up on  
a regular basis.  I have a G4 15" PowerMac. It is about 3 years old  
and running as smoothly as the day I purchased it. I backup using  
firewire on an external HD. I backup my complete HD (bootable). After  
your initial backup it is a snap to backup your new information each  
day. I use SuperDuper and Intego Personal Backup to perform the  
backup (more on this below). At least once I lost everything on my  
computer and my backup saved many hours of reinstalling all my  
applications, passwords  (many lost). Some information was lost  
forever. After that nightmare I would never be without an external  
drive with a complete bootable copy of my HD.

Concerning backup programs. I have Intego Virus Barrier and Intego  
Personal Backup X5 and SuperDuper on my computer.  When I tried to  
backup with SuperDuper about halfway through the backup it would  
stop.  When I backed up using Personal Backup I always ended up with  
one error. The external HD was still bootable and had my information  
on it. I traced my error to Virus Barrier which had detected  
something it could not copy.  I then called SuperDuper and they said  
the item not only would not copy on SuperDuper but would always cause  
it to stop. They put it on Virus Barrier.  I called Intego and they  
put the problem on SuperDuper but did provide me with information to  
eliminate the error which was to go to preferences in Virus Barrier  
and turn off the scanner which would turn back on after the  
completion of the backup. It also allowed me to use SuperDuper by  
turning off the scanner in Virus Barrier. This for anyone having  
trouble cloning and using Virus Barrier and Personal Backup or  
SuperDuper.
On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Bill Palmer wrote:

> There are only two kinds of hard drive mechanisms -- those that  
> have already failed, and those that eventually will.  Yours is the  
> latter, well on the way to becoming the former.  You should take  
> immediate steps to get your data onto something more reliable.  My  
> recommendation is an external Firewire disk at least as large as  
> the failing disk, plus a copy of SuperDuper!  SuperDuper! will make  
> a bootable clone of your disk on the external drive.  Do that  
> regularly and you can simply boot from the external disk when the  
> internal drive inevitably fails.  Then you can use SuperDuper! to  
> clone the bits from the external back onto your newly replaced  
> drive.  If you're a do-it-yourself kind of guy, you can get a  
> replacement drive from Other World Computing or the like along with  
> an inexpensive external drive case, clone the disk, and then  
> install the new disk in the computer to replace the old one.  If  
> you value the data on the disk, don't put this off...
>
> Good luck!
>
> Bill
>
> --- On The, 9/18/08, m_flynn at comcast.net <m_flynn at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> From: m_flynn at comcast.net <m_flynn at comcast.net>
>> Subject: [Ti] System Drive problem
>> To: Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
>> Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 10:16 AM
>> I have a Power Mac 1gig mem 60gb drive. I am losing my hard
>> drive. I tried using DiskWarrior and it gets me back to the
>> sign on screen but that's it. It says, at times, that
>> the drive is to slow to complete some of the tasks. My
>> question is can a drive be saved if it's a speed thing.
>> In other words Is there a chnce this can be saved?
>>
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