From robin at berjon.com  Thu Feb 12 09:34:40 2009
From: robin at berjon.com (Robin Berjon)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:34:40 +0100
Subject: [Dahut-pm] Disk swap strategy
Message-ID: <03B82719-AF6A-4C16-ABA2-7098688C7331@berjon.com>

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!!!

-- 
Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
     Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/






From matt at sergeant.org  Sat Feb 14 18:30:11 2009
From: matt at sergeant.org (Matt Sergeant)
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:30:11 -0500
Subject: [Dahut-pm] Disk swap strategy
In-Reply-To: <03B82719-AF6A-4C16-ABA2-7098688C7331@berjon.com>
References: <03B82719-AF6A-4C16-ABA2-7098688C7331@berjon.com>
Message-ID: <20090214213011702836.d0e96e4f@sergeant.org>

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!!!
> 
> -- 
> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
>     Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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