Disk Superduper

and in the beginning of the install it will ask f you want to restore from the last good Time Machine backup. My best friend had a disk drive go bad and this is how he only lost the time it took to get a new drive before he was back to almost the same exact point before the old drive crashed. ...

Since I bought my MacBook, which is 111.47 gigs, it has consistently showed available space as if it were approximately 1/2 of the size In September, I could count up 51 gigs of data, & I had 3+ gigs available. Verified my count with Disk Inventory counted 51 gigs, & similar result with the utility they used at the Apple Store. (51x2+3x2=108G) Today: Disk Inventory...

Onyx, SuperDuper and a host of other programs will help you run them if you don't know how to do it via Terminal. ...

There are a couple of things you can try to do. Since you have a Data Rescue program, I would suggest reading up on it NOW. I would get the external drive, boot off your Installation Disk and then use that to install an OS on your new EX-HD. Then boot on that and see if you can access data in your failing drive. If you can--copy. Or you can use a copying program like...

What you need to do is backup everything onto an external hardrive using a program like superduper or carboncopy cloner. ...

Firewire the two computers together. Put the iBook into Target Disk mode, Use the PowerBook to access the files on the iBook. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the HDD of the iBook or some other software like SuperDuper. ...

A separate partition would do, but I choose to use one of several surplus 2.5" drives I have (left over from HD upgrades), mounted in an external case... http://tinyurl.com/lzdlyy Then I just put the drive away for safe keeping. jb

Do you make a disk image of it? ...

Install my copy of SuperDuper and make a total system clone of this new basic Snow Leopard install. ...

Since the new disk cannot have the exact same name as any other mounted disk I will have to use a name other than Mackintosh HD to clone the original disk to the new one. I also have a concern that on my current boot disk is Windows XP running under parallels. ...