On Nov 26, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > > Anyone care to share their experience with a failed hard drive? I've been using external hard drives for many years, first with Windows and now with OS-X. I had a hard drive failure earlier this year with an iMac, and while that was pre Time Machine, I did have daily backups, so lost only a few e-mails I had already transferred from my inbox to a folder on my hard drive. Can't imagine living without an external drive for backups. Whether I'll use Time Machine to automate a restore down the road remains to be seen, since I'm quite accustomed from WIndows days to restore directory by directory and have used those misfortunes as an opportunity t clean out unnecessary files/directories.