[Dahut-pm] Disk swap strategy

[Matt Sergeant]

My suggestion: buy a cheap-o drive enclosure, plug it into the Air, set 
it as the time machine backup, and do a backup.

Then put a new disk in the Air yourself, install OSX, and restore from 
the backup.

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:34:40 +0100, Robin Berjon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm approaching a bit of a fix. My Air's HDD has started to make the 
> occasional clicking noise, and will beep once in a while. I'm pretty 
> sure that means it's gonna die. I have a backup that's at most 15 
> minutes behind, and I'm going to make at least another one. My 
> problem is that Apple needs the laptop for 7-10 days to fix it, and I 
> wonder what I should do in the meantime. Since I've never been 
> through this before, I was thinking of prodding youse fine folks.
> 
> There's an MBP that I don't use much. I was thinking I could wipe it 
> and somehow use Time Machine to transfer the Air's "soul" in there 
> (how that works exactly I'm not sure since that laptop doesn't have 
> Time Machine and I'm not sure what I did with the install DVDs, but 
> we'll see about that later). I could work on it for a while and do 
> the reverse translation later. Does that sound sensible? Any pitfalls 
> I should be worried about? Any better suggestions? Based on what I 
> see online I think I've got a few days before my HDD goes batshit so 
> I can plan this, and I'd like to use the warning time to be ready.
> 
> DAHUUUUT!!!
> 
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