On Jul 13, 10:07 am, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 8:48 PM -0700 7/12/2009, dualG4Wheels wrote: > > >On Jul 12, 9:01 pm, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Update your backups! Just in case it's the HD... > > >I have time machine on the job as we speak. > > You cannot boot from a TM backup. So keep in mind that if your > internal HD fails, the TM backup is useless until you get a > yet-another drive upon which to build your system. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
I have a known good HD that has a good Tiger install on it that I culled from my Gigabit Ethernet when its logic board went south, so if push came to shove I could get somebody to swap drives out. Plus I have a Leopard install disk. I am physically handicapped, so doing things such as disconnecting or swapping hard drives is beyond my purview unless a computer is already known to be toast. =) Thank you Jonas and Dan for your replies. Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
