[Ti] About to take the X 1.3 plunge

[Charlie Lenahan]

Just disconnect the power or ide cable to your internal harddrive and see if
it boots properly.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Swanson" <mswanson9988 at comcast.net>
To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:50 AM
Subject: [Ti] About to take the X 1.3 plunge


> I just got Osx 2.3, downlaoded the 1.3.2 update, and ccc'd my drive to
> a external firewire drive.  When I boot from the firewire drive,
> everything looks exactly like booting from the internal drive.  I've
> tested applications; safari, mail, word etc. and everything works.  My
> question is can I reformat the internal drive or is OS X creating the
> illusion that the external drive looks and acts like the original
> internal.  I know this might sound a little silly, but I don't want
> toreformat the drive and find out the external drive only looked like
> it was running things.  The external drive is at the top of the drive
> list and window but I can't eject the main drive "because it is in use"
>   This makes me worry that it is still contributing to what I'm seeing
> and how its acting.  I don't want to loose what I have on my original
> drive.
>
>
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