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dav

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Jun 29, 2004
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I have an iBook with an 80 GB hard drive with priceless data on it that would hurt to lose. I want an external hard drive to backup to. Would this be a good solution?

Buy an IDE/Firewire case and a large Seagate/Western Digital hard drive
Partition the hard drive into 80 GB and whatever else is left
Use CCC to maintain a bootable backup on one partition
Use the rest of the space for various other files

Would this be good? Can somebody recommend some cases or hard drives?

Thanks

-dav
 
Just dont drop the hard drive...western digital has bad tech support (of course, this is only my opinion). And I would try backing up your stuff on two sources, if say for instance, your hard drive goes south.
 
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