How do I transfer data from one hard drive to my new hard drive?
Written by admin on April 15, 2009 – 10:04 am -I have a mac powerbook G4 and it has a 80 gb hard drive in it. I recently purchased a 500 GB hard drive and want to transfer all of my files and operating system to my 500gb hard drive. Is that possible, or do I need to just install the hard drive and partition it with a clean copy of Leopard? Any help would be great!
Not familiar with Apple products.
One way you could do it is to take out the hard disk and get someone to clone it to the 500GB drive using a Windows PC and Norton Ghost software.
Then just replace the 500GB drive in the Mac and it should work.
Otherwise, you could place the 500GB in the Mac and install the OS and applications, then use a USB adapter to connect the 80GB as an external drive and copy the files into the 500GB drive.
After that, you can reformat the 80GB and use it as an external hard drive for backing up your data.
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What are the signs a hard drive gives when it is about to crash?
Written by admin on April 15, 2009 – 10:04 am -My laptop is about 4 years old and I have defragmented and run Scan Disk. My hard drive light is almost always blinking as if the hard drive is working even when the computer is idle. It never used to do this before. I did a quick restore to restore the operating system and all the software that came originally with the computer hoping this would solve the problem, but it didn't. The hard drive light seems to always be on as if the hard drive is busy doing something and the computer is responding very slugishly. I have run antivirus, spyware removal, registry cleaner, adware remover etc. The problem has not gone away. Any suggestions or answers to what this problem could be due to? My computer also seemed to run a bit hot the other day (resulting in computer shutting off), even when on Chill Pad. Thank you in advance.
CHKDSK result.: WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
39062015 KB total disk space.
12661248 KB in 73156 files.
23508 KB in 6638 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
89627 KB in use by the system.
4096 KB occupied by the log file.
26287632 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
9765503 total allocation units on disk.
6571908 allocation units available on disk.
It's had a good life.
You've done all the correct houskeeping to reduce stress.
Try HDD Health - see link.
If you get another 6 months be grareful.
Back it up immediately and often.
When they go it's sudden death.
Good luck
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How to divide the external hard drive into different sections?
Written by admin on April 15, 2009 – 10:04 am -Normally, the hard drive in our computers has more than one drives. We save all the program files in one drive such as drive c:/ and save other files like Word documents, photos, songs in another drive such as drive e:/. Is it necessary to divide external hard drive into different sections such as F:/, G:/, H:/?
And how to divide the external hard drive into several sections?
With External plugged in.....Right Click on My Computer icon....select Manage. Go to Disk Management...there you can create partitions (Logical Drives) in the sizes you specify. Keep in mind that you will have to delete any existing partition and data to make changes to it.
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Hard Drive Recovery
Written by admin on April 15, 2009 – 10:04 am -
News clip about hard drive recovery process.
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