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Quick Q (Time Machine)
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<blockquote data-quote="pokeman89" data-source="post: 951120" data-attributes="member: 121289"><p>It was formatted for windows, so I guess it didn't like it. I actually managed to fit all of my important stuff on a 32GB flash drive so I reformatted it for mac and am using Time Machine now anyway. Took all night to do the first backup, but now it's nice and quick.</p><p></p><p>Now I have a question, I do not have any working OS disks (Mine are too scratched to use) and I am worried about a hard drive failure. After all, this is an 8 year old machine we are talking about. If I use either time machine or deja vu, do both make complete copies of the HD that can be made bootable if something were to happen? If my primary fails, it would be nice to know I can just hit a key and I can boot off of the backup then too. In fact, the only reason I took the HD out of my windows machine is because it doesn't really need a backup since I have at least 2 OS disks for windows XP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pokeman89, post: 951120, member: 121289"] It was formatted for windows, so I guess it didn't like it. I actually managed to fit all of my important stuff on a 32GB flash drive so I reformatted it for mac and am using Time Machine now anyway. Took all night to do the first backup, but now it's nice and quick. Now I have a question, I do not have any working OS disks (Mine are too scratched to use) and I am worried about a hard drive failure. After all, this is an 8 year old machine we are talking about. If I use either time machine or deja vu, do both make complete copies of the HD that can be made bootable if something were to happen? If my primary fails, it would be nice to know I can just hit a key and I can boot off of the backup then too. In fact, the only reason I took the HD out of my windows machine is because it doesn't really need a backup since I have at least 2 OS disks for windows XP. [/QUOTE]
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