10-04-2008, 09:19 PM
I previously posted about a problem that occurred due to a series of momentary power outages, which resulted in one of my internal drives being knocked out. I thought it was a goner.
Well, a trip to my local Apple store yesterday got me a suggestion to run Restore from Disk Utility. That's something I've never done before, so it hadn't occurred to me that it would work. Sure enough, the drive seems okay now. Of course, I lost all the data on it, but that didn't matter to me, since I hadn't been actively using this drive for some time. Anyway, I now have a blank hard drive (not even an OS installed) and I'm wondering what to do with it?
This is a question that I've had for years. I never knew what to do with my unused internal drives whose function was taken over when I installed a larger drive.
In the past, I just kept them in place, figuring that the data on them might come in handy someday. In actuality, I never went back to the old drives, since the data worth keeping had been safely moved onto the larger replacement drives.
The recovered drive is 300gb and because it's a lot smaller than the 750gb drives that I'm currently using, I figured it isn't large enough to use for a clone of the main drive, which is how I backup. So what use would you suggest for this drive?
I would love to get some ideas about what others do with installed drives that they no longer boot to.
Thanks for your thoughts,
GeneL
Well, a trip to my local Apple store yesterday got me a suggestion to run Restore from Disk Utility. That's something I've never done before, so it hadn't occurred to me that it would work. Sure enough, the drive seems okay now. Of course, I lost all the data on it, but that didn't matter to me, since I hadn't been actively using this drive for some time. Anyway, I now have a blank hard drive (not even an OS installed) and I'm wondering what to do with it?
This is a question that I've had for years. I never knew what to do with my unused internal drives whose function was taken over when I installed a larger drive.
In the past, I just kept them in place, figuring that the data on them might come in handy someday. In actuality, I never went back to the old drives, since the data worth keeping had been safely moved onto the larger replacement drives.
The recovered drive is 300gb and because it's a lot smaller than the 750gb drives that I'm currently using, I figured it isn't large enough to use for a clone of the main drive, which is how I backup. So what use would you suggest for this drive?
I would love to get some ideas about what others do with installed drives that they no longer boot to.
Thanks for your thoughts,
GeneL