Moving Sluggishly

I went to bed shortly after midnight but I think kent4str was up for quite some time following; even now he's still in bed recovering. cuyahogarvr is off to the gym while I'm about to tackle the disk upgrade of my iMac.

The cloning of the internal disk to a spare USB disk took nearly 16 hours. I should be able to remove the old 60 GB disk shortly although I'll have to dig deeply into the innards of the machine to get to the drive. Restoring the data will probably take nearly as long as the original backup. Oy, this had better be worth it.

The new disk in my XP workstation is working beautifully, although it's taking longer than I thought to reload 180+ GB of the movies from the backup computer. Nothing to do but sit and wait though.

Outside of a brief grocery shopping expedition in the afternoon --presuming kent4str actually wakes up-- there is nothing else on the agenda.

Moving Sluggishly

I went to bed shortly after midnight but I think kent4str was up for quite some time following; even now he's still in bed recovering. cuyahogarvr is off to the gym while I'm about to tackle the disk upgrade of my iMac.

The cloning of the internal disk to a spare USB disk took nearly 16 hours. I should be able to remove the old 60 GB disk shortly although I'll have to dig deeply into the innards of the machine to get to the drive. Restoring the data will probably take nearly as long as the original backup. Oy, this had better be worth it.

The new disk in my XP workstation is working beautifully, although it's taking longer than I thought to reload 180+ GB of the movies from the backup computer. Nothing to do but sit and wait though.

Outside of a brief grocery shopping expedition in the afternoon --presuming kent4str actually wakes up-- there is nothing else on the agenda.

iMac Victory!

It took some effort to dismantle the old iMac but I was able to extract the old 60 GB hard drive and replace it with a 320 GB disk. After putting it all back together, I was happy to hear the standard Mac boot chime and watch it boot up from an external USB clone disk. The new disk has been recognized by the system and successfully formatted.

As I write this, the data is being restored to the new disk. In another 12-14 hours, all will be done! Yay!

iMac Victory!

It took some effort to dismantle the old iMac but I was able to extract the old 60 GB hard drive and replace it with a 320 GB disk. After putting it all back together, I was happy to hear the standard Mac boot chime and watch it boot up from an external USB clone disk. The new disk has been recognized by the system and successfully formatted.

As I write this, the data is being restored to the new disk. In another 12-14 hours, all will be done! Yay!