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How do you back up the hard drive?
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You have 10.3 Tiger makes this a lot easier and lets you burn disks from the finder.
You will need to use Disk Utility to make an image and then burn the image. More steps but no really so hard to do.
gr8tfly
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You can create a burn folder in 10.3. I believe the difference between it and Tiger (10.4) is it makes copies of your files when it makes the burn folder (rather than aliases). I think it's in the same Finder menu: File->New Burn Folder.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151904
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151904
AvMac
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1. From Finder Menu -> File -> New Burn Folder (Creates a Burn folder)
2. Drag and Drop your files and folders to this burn folder
3. Insert your blank media disk (dvd/cd)
4. Open Burn folder -> Right click (ctrl click) and select option "Burn Disk"
5. You're done.
Edit: I realised you have OS 10.3. I am not sure if its different than in 10.4
I have silverkeeper. It's very user friendly and easy to use. If I can use it, anyone can 🙂
It makes it so easy to backup anything you want and put it wherever you want. I usually transfer over onto a blank CD and then burn it.
It makes it so easy to backup anything you want and put it wherever you want. I usually transfer over onto a blank CD and then burn it.
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gr8tfly
macrumors 603
Have you inserted a blank CD yet? 10.3 doesn't have a "New Burn Folder..." - it's been awhile and I don't have 10.3 handy.
At any rate, check out the KB article (was also in my previous post): http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151904
At any rate, check out the KB article (was also in my previous post): http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151904
tech4all
macrumors 68040
Double click on the CD/DVD icon. Does anything in there say "burn"? (not on Panther right now, so I'm not exactly sure what it looks like)
I don't even have a blank CD yet; I'm just getting prepped and ready. 😀
When I insert the CD, will there be a CD icon on the desktop?
tech4all
macrumors 68040
Yes. I just popped in a CD-R into my iBook running 10.3.9. You should see an "untitled CD" on your desktop. Then when you open the a Finder window you will also see it in the sidebar. There will be one of those radioactive symbol things that you click to burn the CD. Also if you right click (Ctrl click) on the CD icon, you should see "Burn Disc" as well. Just copy your files onto the CD (I think it's actually file and not just aliases with Panther), and burn the CD/DVD.
Also when you click and drag the CD icon, the Trash can turns into that radioactive symbol. So I think if you drag it to that, you can burn it as well.