On Apr 23, 1:15 pm, John Niven <sense...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Wow! I just looked at iFixit.com and it looks as complicated as a PowerBook > to replace the harddrive!. > > I think I'm just going to leave it alone (at least until it fails). > I can tackle this level of complexity but it looks like ther is plenty of > opportunity to make things worst =( not better. > > I think this leans me towards a backup onto external hard drive, clean > install, and then copy over what she needs now.
Excellent leaning. Consider making that external drive a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Alternatively, use the external drive with Time Machine. Or take the best of both worlds by getting two external drives, one for cloning and the other for Time Machine. Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
