[Dahut-pm] Disk swap strategy
Matt Sergeant
matt at sergeant.org
Sat Feb 14 18:30:11 PST 2009
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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