01-30-2014, 02:49 AM
Continued from my last post. This morning at work (on my older intel white iMac) I was gathering up files to copy them over to my flash drive but ended up getting distracted so I did not do it (I should have listened to myself).
I was working on our website (just in Firefox) with a couple of other programs running in the background and "wham" in the blink of an eye the dreaded white screen appeared.
I decided it was too late to mess with it tonight so I pressed the power button in the back and it shut down. Then I unplugged it and went home.
In the am I'll try unplugging everything first and see if it powers up (have several peripherals connected). If not then I might try zapping the Pram and then.... whatever else I find on the web.
On this computer I am running Time Machine. On the iMac at work not doing much of anything except the occasional back up to a fash drive (which I failed to do).
I am curiours to know what everyone would recommend as a no drama, easy way to back up in case of a hard drive failure or even a failure of a motherboard or similar.
I have cloned my drives before with Carbon Cloner but I put it on to a fresh drive right away so I have not used CC since.
Not sure what Time Machine would do for me if I had a crash.
What are the other options....
TIA
I was working on our website (just in Firefox) with a couple of other programs running in the background and "wham" in the blink of an eye the dreaded white screen appeared.
I decided it was too late to mess with it tonight so I pressed the power button in the back and it shut down. Then I unplugged it and went home.
In the am I'll try unplugging everything first and see if it powers up (have several peripherals connected). If not then I might try zapping the Pram and then.... whatever else I find on the web.
On this computer I am running Time Machine. On the iMac at work not doing much of anything except the occasional back up to a fash drive (which I failed to do).
I am curiours to know what everyone would recommend as a no drama, easy way to back up in case of a hard drive failure or even a failure of a motherboard or similar.
I have cloned my drives before with Carbon Cloner but I put it on to a fresh drive right away so I have not used CC since.
Not sure what Time Machine would do for me if I had a crash.
What are the other options....
TIA