| What if the harddrive crashes on new iMac? Since the newest iMac doesn't have a superdrive and doesn't include a copy of the OS along with it, what would you do if your harddrive crashes and you have to buy a new HDD to replace the old one with? How would you install the OS onto the new HDD?
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 skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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1 edit | The firmware can run ethernet or wireless along with a GUI for redownloading the OS. I've done it in other Macs a bunch of times (rather than cloning the old drive). Apple calls it "OS X Internet Recovery". |
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| Oh wow! That's pretty sweet and amazing! |
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| Note that it takes a long time to download....
I tried it on a relatively fast 28meg cable connection, and it took over 2 hours to download... i guess it depends on whatever ISP and their connection/routing to the Apple servers.
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RiamenPremium
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Calgary | It's never taken more than 15-20 minutes for me. |
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| reply to fonzbear2000
When everything is working properly, you could use SuperDuper! (or some other cloning program) to copy the contents of the hard drive over to an external drive. If the iMac's hard drive needs replacing in the future, you could then clone the external drive's contents to the replacement. |
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skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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For the entire OS or just the recovery tools? It downloads and executes the recovery tools first, then if you want to do a full reinstall it downloads the OS or you can do the other stuff like restore from TM. I have a 50Mb connection and it didn't DL the recovery tools and the OS in 30 minutes. It took a long time. |
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RiamenPremium
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Calgary | I was referring to the OS download. I've done it 3 times now and it has never taken anywhere close to 2 hours. |
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The friendly local Apple Store can restore it for you, too. |
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| said by haroldo:The friendly local Apple Store can restore it for you, too.
For free even if you don't have Apple care?
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skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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kudos:2 | If it is labor only I have no problems getting out of warranty help. If you call, they want money, but no problem for me at the bar. |
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haroldo
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said by fonzbear2000:said by haroldo:The friendly local Apple Store can restore it for you, too.
For free even if you don't have Apple care? i believe so. They've never charged for out of warranty software issues. Last week they reformatted and reinstalled an out of warranty MacBook for me. |
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 Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
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Winston Salem, NC | reply to fonzbear2000
With regards to "at the store" - I am quite sure they have a local copy of everything on their servers at the store so if you are using their wifi network I bet the data just comes straight off their servers. After all they have to do so many restores a day for hardware they're fixing it wouldn't make sense not to. |
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 dellsweigExtreme AerobaticsPremium,MVM
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While OTA backup/restore is a good thing - you cant beat properly done local TimeMachine backup...
I have a 2TB IoSafe Fireproof/waterproof external drive (about 200$). My Time machine lives there as well as backups from other machines and any other file I cannot loose.
I also do Mozy online backups of everything except my music library (too big)..
Cheap insurance policy when your entire digital life is on a hard drive
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I don't trust T Machine............not for 'mission critical'...
All my Macs are backed up to Ext ( sometimes networked) HD using CCC ( carbon Copy Cloner)......about once a fortnight/month at most......... |
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skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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kudos:2 | I agree, CCC or Superduper is a better final solution to guarantee you will be back up and running in short order, especially since you can boot right off the backup volume. TM is great for incrementals. |
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