[Ti] System Drive problem

[m_flynn at comcast.net]

Can I boot the system from the SuperDuper CD?

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Bill Palmer <whpalmer4 at yahoo.com> 

> 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 Thu, 9/18/08, m_flynn at comcast.net wrote: 
> 
> > From: 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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