Good point. I'll probably get a new external, but at this point I'm not quite sure how to go about accomplishing the second part of your advice. My fear is that every moment spent attempting to access Big is taking time off it's life, and it feels like time is short.
So, any advice on how to...
I have a G4 with two hard drives. There is a smaller ~40GB drive that is the start up disk and a larger ~150GB drive (which I call Big) that holds most of my data. Last week I noticed that Big would occasionally not mount on start up. This problem got my lazy self to start updating my backup on...