[Ti] System Drive problem

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

Mickey - all of these are great recommendations.

You cannot have too many backups.

I use TimeMachine to make backups at home and at work of my aluminium  
G4 Powerbook.
I also use SuperDuper to make bootable complete copies of my hard disk  
to FW800 and FW400 external disks.
SuperDuper really is a good application.  The "smart backups" it does  
are very quick (incremental backups).

Since I found that the last few OS X updates have been a bit unstable  
(my Powerbook does not always wake from sleep, sometimes it turns of  
during sleep, sometimes I need to restart it 3X to get it to start up)  
I always have my FW400 disk with me, as I can always start up from that.
I hope 10.5.5 has moved me beyond those issues.

I once had a 80GB drive that went pear shaped.  I replaced it, then  
totally erased / reformatted it, and I have been using it as an  
external drive for several years without a hiccup.  You might be able  
to do that with your 60GB drive, once you have replaced it with a new  
drive.
It is getting difficult to find IDE drives these days, so you might  
have to search for a while to find one.

regards, Trevor


On 20 Sep 2008, at 00:33, Read Weaver wrote:

> SuperDuper is available online, and I believe only online. It's main  
> (and only simple) use is to create a complete & bootable copy of  
> your hard drive. If you don't currently have a drive you can boot  
> from, it's not going to be useful until you get one. I could be  
> mistaken, but I don't think you'd be able to make a bootable CD  
> using SuperDuper.
>
> My understanding is that not all Firewire hard drives are bootable-- 
> I've read that you need one with an Oxford chipset. (And note that  
> only Firewire drives are bootable--USB drives are not bootable with  
> PowerPC Macs.)
>
> On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:03 PM, m_flynn at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> 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 rep laceme nt 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 th ing. < BR>>  
>> > In other words Is there a chnce this can be saved?
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
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