Thursday, November 21, 2002

My Powerbook is finally back and functional. My DVD drive failed and I decided to replace it with a combo DVD/CD-RW drive. So when I had a spare moment I summoned up the courage and got a shipping box from PowerbookResq.After a little problem with the drive being back-ordered I was back in business and very happy. 8:12:08 PM     The cool part of my ordeal was being able to continue with my work uninterrupted. I had already sent a donation to Mike Bombich who created Carbon Copy Cloner and had used the application to migrate from the original hard drive on the 'book to a bigger one. This time I cloned over the OS and my own user folder to an old drive in a Firewire enclosure. I was able to borrow an unused Powerbook G4 and boot from the Firewire. Aside from the hassle of keeping track of the dangling drive the whole thing worked like a charm. 8:11:19 PM

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