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Recovering from a catastrophic drive failure.
Authored by: wallybear on Apr 26, '11 01:54:09PM

Two little things to note:

1) "The type of interface to choose for the new external hard drive you intend to use as a temporary startup disk is up to you."

This is not exact: some non-intel Macs cannot boot from USB drives.Check if your model can, before buying an USB external HD; otherwise choose a Firewire drive (400 or 800).

2) It's a good habit to use the Time Machine preference pane to exclude from TM backups your download folder, as its contents change very often: if you downloaded something that you really want to keep you surely will move it from that folder, so TM will backup it from its final destination.



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