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Re: A new Hard Drive for an IMac.
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Re: A new Hard Drive for an IMac.
Big problem here, my external is a USB drive. I don't have a firewire drive. So, how about this. I buy a Firewire external box. I put the new 750 gig drive into it. I backup or copy or whatever the c: drive to the firewire drive. I take the 750 gig drive out of the firewire box and put it into the IMac. At this point I… -
A new Hard Drive for an IMac.
I have a year and half old, 20" duo core IMac with a 250 gig hard drive in it. I would like to change out the hard drive to a 500 or 750 gig HD. Has anyone here done this? Can anyone point me to a site that can show me what to expect when I open the box up? I'm looking at getting the new OSX so I figured this would be a… -
Re: A new Hard Drive for an IMac.
Why a new internal drive? I already have a 500 gig external (USB) for backing up my photos. I want a large enough drive inside so I have all my files in 2 spots. So I bought a 750 gig (go big or not at all) to put inside. The trouble I'm having now is trying to figure out how to do a full backup of the internal drive… -
Re: A new Hard Drive for an IMac.
OK, here is my try... What I would do is install Leopard in the present machine. You have a built in back up system in Leopard, Time Machine, if you let that one run for a couple of days, you have a very good copy of your hard disk. You would have the time machine back up to the external. If you then put in the 750 gig… -
Re: A new Hard Drive for an IMac.
You need a copy of SuperDuper $27.95 This will let you have a bootable, duplicate of your hard drive, complete with all your apps. Back up your system drive to your external firewire drive. Remove your system drive and install the 750 Gb new drive into the iMac. Boot from your external backup drive, and copy the back up…
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