The only problem for Andrew is he cannot see anything to make such a backup.
I keep two sets of my hard drives. One set is off-site in case of fire or burglary. Brian On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Dan Penoff <lwb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > They really hammer this home in GSX, their repair system. I suspect it's > because people never make backups and then find out the hard drive got > replaced during a repair, effectively nuking years of data (pictures and > music, no doubt!) > > The easiest way to do this if you have an external HD that's big enough is > to use Disk Utility and make a .dmg of the complete drive. That way if it > comes back with a new or nuked drive, you can easily restore in a matter of > an hour or less. > > Dan > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Allan Streib wrote: > > >> I'd just send as-is, but make a hard drive backup if you have the > >> equipment to do so. > > > > Absolutely do, Apple will replace the hard drive without asking if that's > > somehow the problem. Or so I was told when I had my MacBook Pro sent in > > for a dead *external* display (it needed a new main board, covered under > > AppleCare. The shop stressed this several times, and when I dropped it > > off they said "you do have a backup of your files, right?" > > > > Allan > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
