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snowboardjoe

My first computer restore

May 28, 2010 00:25

I say this is my first because this is actually the first time I've had a drive failure on a personal computer. Usually my hard drives last for many years. Not so for my 2007 iMac. I noticed last night when I was in Aperture that the system kept pausing at various intervals for no apparent reason and Spotlight was stuck. Sure enough, I checked ( Read more... )

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mississippicub May 28 2010, 12:21:02 UTC

lucky it worked out. I've had 2 hard drives die on me in the past 11 years at MSU and both times it was a horrific experience and lots of data loss

snowboardjoe May 28 2010, 14:16:23 UTC

It worked. Time Machine did an awesome job. When I got to my desktop this morning, all I had to do was reboot and the system was just as I had left it before removing the old drive. There are a few things it needs to rebuild like web and mail caches, but it's already caught up with much of that too (stuff not practical to backup really).