Recovering from a catastrophic drive failure.
I can't say it enough. Back up your hard drive. I'm going to talk here about what I recommend as the best way to protect yourself from a catastrophic hard drive failure. Keep in mind that what follows is just one of many ways to protect your Mac.
This will cost you. You need to purchase an external hard drive to use with Time Machine. When your internal hard drive fails, you will then need another external hard drive to restore to from Time Machine. You will be using that new external hard drive to work from until you're ready to repair your Mac. The Time Machine basics: The size needed for this hard drive depends on how much space you expect to use on your internal hard drive. If you're currently using only about 30GB of your 500GB hard drive and you don't expect to be adding a lot of videos or photos in the future, then you can safely use a 120GB hard drive. In other words, your Time Machine backup drive should be about three times the size of wh ...
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