[X4U] Dying drive: next steps?

[Jim Freeman]

I had my HD die on me a couple of months ago. It was making horrible 
clunking noises so I knew it wasn't long for this world. I urgently 
started copying stuff off of it, onto an external HD and onto my iPod. 
I didn't have an external drive with enough capacity to copy 
everything. I started with the Documents folder and ~/Library. I got 
all of that. Then I copied my iPhoto library. Check. Then I turned to 
my iTunes library. I got through the C's before the drive finally died.

My point is, if it may die "any minute now", I would suggest 
prioritizing starting with your most irreplaceable data. It may be a 
pain to reinstall apps, but they should be a low priority.

I was then able to return my IBM Travelstar 40 gig drive to Hitachi to 
warranty replacement.

Jim

On 19-Nov-04, at 10:29 AM, Jesse Leo wrote:

> So DiskWarrior tells me that my drive is going to die any minute now. 
> I've
> ordered a new one and will do the setup this weekend. Now, to get 
> those apps
> and libraries over...