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What's wrong with my Mac??
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1377645"><p>If the hard drive is dying, ANYTHING you do involving the hard drive will push it further into failure.</p><p></p><p>Since you've backed up everything, why not run off the auxilliary drive? This will keep boot drive activity to a minimum. I'm assuming you've made a bootable clone of your drive of course.</p><p></p><p>If you haven't, get another external drive and do so immediately (you can just restore from the TM drive to the new drive if you made a TM backup) using <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html" target="_blank">SuperDuper</a> or <a href="http://www.bombich.com/" target="_blank">Carbon Copy Cloner</a> (neither is free but both will do a free clone for the purposes we're talking about here; you can send them money later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1377645"] If the hard drive is dying, ANYTHING you do involving the hard drive will push it further into failure. Since you've backed up everything, why not run off the auxilliary drive? This will keep boot drive activity to a minimum. I'm assuming you've made a bootable clone of your drive of course. If you haven't, get another external drive and do so immediately (you can just restore from the TM drive to the new drive if you made a TM backup) using [URL="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html"]SuperDuper[/URL] or [URL="http://www.bombich.com/"]Carbon Copy Cloner[/URL] (neither is free but both will do a free clone for the purposes we're talking about here; you can send them money later. [/QUOTE]
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