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What I learned the day my hard drive died

On January 3, 2007, in Hard Drive, How-To, by Rich Lefko

My Hard drive died recently. I thought I would share my experience so that others might not make the same mistakes I made.

Note: I am not a beginner, nor will I recap every single thing I did, but I hope the highlights will provide some illumination. Also, I am a BIG believer in Back-ups. I use Super Duper to regularly CLONE my main hard drive to two separate external drives…weekly.

My Dual 2 Ghz G5 Mac Tower, running Mac OS X 10.4.6, began acting strangely. Waking from sleep was screwed up and some programs were behaving a little strange.