Double H
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sweet, so if I get a hard drive that runs off of a firewire 800 I would be able to do the same thing? I went out and got a MacBook Pro 2 days ago
my thoughts for an external harddrive is getting an enclosure with a firewire 800 connection then getting a WD 1TB drive to put in it. If I ever fill that up then I can get another WD harddrvie and put it in it
Not exactly. When you start up a Mac while holding the T key, it starts up as just a 'hard drive," you can plug in a firewire cable from it to a working computer. Your "failed" drive will show up on the working machine's desktop, you can then get what you need off the disc. This will not always work, depending on how badly the drive failed in the first place. You could take the drive out of the Dell, put into an enclosure and do the same thing, provided the disc will mount.
I would recommend getting at least two externals. It's not a matter of if your hard drive will fail it's a matter of when.