In preparation for the coming of Snow Leopard, I decided to purchase a new external hard drive. My 500GB was full and I wanted to make sure I had both a Time Machine backup and a manual backup of my user folder before I do a clean install of Snow Leopard. So off I went to the nearest mall and got myself a 1TB external hard drive.
Now, I tried moving my Time Machine back up before from a 200GB hard drive to my 500GB and I thought it was just as simple as dragging the files and resuming it from …read more

It used to be that when you received a new computer you also received a handful of discs that could be used to completely restore the computer to the factory default state. Many times now you don’t receive discs, unless you want to pay extra for them. All the restoration files are put in a partition on your hard drive installed on the machine.

I can understand the value of this as now you don’t have to go tracking down all those discs, unless you’ve organized them and know exactly where they are kept. Everything you need is on the hard …read more