[Ti] Cautionary Story

[Tarik Bilgin]

On 10 Jan 2007, at 00:19, Erik Gaderlund wrote:

> At 01:38 PM +0100 01/09/07, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2007, at 13:24, Frank Ettenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hello List,  Just wanted to relate that I am a Tit. g4 1.67ghz   
>>> Powerbook owner.d what y'all are saying and recommending a large  
>>> part of the time.  Just a note for everyone--this game can be  
>>> very expensive, of course, especially for ignoramuses like me.   
>>> ( I paid the tech about 450 dollars to fix the problem--he  
>>> recovered just about all my jpgs and other data, so at least I  
>>> know I must regularly back everything up.) Anyhow, I now have a  
>>> perfectly functioning pb since he formatted the disk-except that  
>>> it slows down considerably when I've just started Limewire-and I  
>>> have to replenish a lot of the software that was discarded in the  
>>> clean/install that the tech wound up doing.
>>
>> Frank - probably most of us on the list are amateurs (i know some  
>> are not), but with experience, and we heave learnt lessons the  
>> hard way.
>>
>> I think the lesson from your story is "if you buy or get a  
>> Powerbook from somewhere else, reformat the disk and reinstall the  
>> latest OS, before you do anything else".
>
> When formatting (also with a fresh drive) it is best practice to  
> 'zero all data' which means the drive re-maps (aka avoids bad  
> sectors).  I've gotten a used PowerBook, and did that before  
> installing the latest OS.  You might even check on Apple's support  
> site on formatting drives to get more background on all the options.

Another good option is to buy a brand new disk drive and install it  
in the computer (haven't done this on the newer models yet and  
admittedly you had to be good with a screwdriver on the older models)  
since hard disks are incredibly cheap right now.

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Tarik