Yes, iPod can be loaded with system software and used to start up your Mac or to install system software on your Mac. Using iPod to start up your Mac with system software is an unsupported feature.

In the left panel, click the external FireWIre drive and select "Partition" in menu on the right. Choose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and name the drive. Click "Options" at the bottom of the window. If you have an Intel Mac, select "GUID" as the partition scheme. If you have a Power PC Mac, select ???Apple Partition Map." Click "Partition." It will ask to confirm, click "Partition" again and the partitioning process will begin.

Check question number 6 about startup disks; most people need these because of hard disk problems. Apple provides an "erase disk" option on their main menu which will re-initialize some but not all hard drives. Apple also has a "disk test" utility to test formatted disks. There is also a popular control panel add on for "SCSI probe" which is helpful, check various Mac shareware sites for it.

iPod can double as a FireWire hard drive for your Mac. This allows you to transfer files and applications from your computer and take them with you wherever you go. To use iPod in FireWire disk mode, just connect it to your Mac using the FireWire cable. In iTunes, select iPod in the source list and click the iPod icon in the lower right corner of the screen. The iPod preferences window comes up. Click "Enable FireWire disk use" and click OK. An iPod icon appears on your Mac desktop.

Insert your disk or drive and launch Disk Utility. Disk Utility is found under Apple menu > Utilities > Disk Utilities Click each partition and type a name for it, choose a format, and type a size. You can also drag the divider between the partitions to change their sizes. If a partition's name has an asterisk beside it, it's shown larger than its actual size in order to display its name legibly.

No. Computer hard drives and duplicator hard drives are two separate file systems, so they cannot communicate. The USB and Firewire connections' allow the computer to use the duplicator as a CD or DVD external burner. You can use either of those devices to store the data on a disc from a specified CD or DVD drive on the duplicator. Once you create that disc, you can use it as your master disc to load into the hard drive and make your duplications. No.

Click the "Add New Item" link in the bar beneath the title of your list. Then enter title, description, tags and other information as well as up to 4 images. This item will look just like other items on your list. But when clicked, instead of going to some other site on the web, it will lead to the list you've created on Kaboodle.

Don't expose your laptop to resonating noises, for example loud bass noise from speakers, heavy machinery.

Most hard disk producers compute disk mass this method: 1 MB = 1 million bytes. A 5 GB hard disk, as a result, is one that grips 5 billion bytes. Computers, as well as the Macintosh and iPod, gauge disk mass this method: 1 MB = 1,048,576 bytes. The disparity in these two computations is what causes the disk to come into view as 4.6 GB or 9.2 GB on a computer, but in fact be a 5-billion byte or 10-billion byte hard disk. For larger iPods multiply 4.6 by the real augment in mass e.g.

WinRescue will back up to an external harddrive as long as it is listed in Windows Explorer as a regular harddrive. WinRescue backs up files and not a harddrive image. So, the harddrive's boot information is not backed up. Making a Boot Disk in WinRescue (95/98/ME) will save the boot information on a diskette.

If the iPod is out of warranty, Apple will replace the hard drive in the iPod or iPod mini models for about the cost of a new iPod, and consequently, such a replacement tends to not be cost-effective. However, third-party services also are available, and these can frequently replace the stock drive with a larger one for less than the cost of a new iPod. Alternately, if you have the technical skill, you could purchase a replacement hard drive and install it yourself.

Maxtor 7200rpm ATA133 and Seagate SerialATA150 drives. On our mobile solutions we use Hitachi 7200 RPM drives. The specs on musicxpc.com is for the currently shipping model. Sometimes there are dealers who have very large websites. It is not always quick to get these sites updated. Rest assured that MusicXPC's ordered will ship with the components listed on these pages. No. The heat-pipe dissipates a lot of heat though silent convection.

Frankly, we believe that these media are not optimal for most users and that they should not use a zip or other removable disk media for backup. An offsite backup service is completely automated and has the required file redundancy to protect important data. The only safe way to use removable disk media for backup is to have three disks and make the same backup three times.

Answer: Yes, iPod can be loaded with system software and used as a startup disk for your Mac or to install system software on your Mac. Using iPod to start up your Mac with system software is an unsupported feature. iPod cannot be used to start up a PC.

Yes, All you have to to is go to preferences in iTunes and select "Enable disk use". Your iPod will show up as an external disk.

Like other iPods, the iPod shuffle can be used as a portable hard drive. The average person is more likely to use this feature with the shuffle than with other iPods, because unlike them, the iPod shuffle does not require the user to carry a connection cable, and it works equally well on Macs and PCs without drivers or reformatting. By default, the ability to access the iPod shuffle as a hard drive is disabled. To enable it, enter the iPod Preferences page as we did above.

The iPod will begin to go through a disk scan. At the end you will be presented with a Disk icon with a check mark or a sad iPod icon. If you get a sad iPod icon you need to send your iPod in for repair.

You can use ShredIt for Mac OS 7 as a hard drive cleaner to erase the contents of a hard drive. We recommend that you do this to clean the drive before you dispose of a computer. For step-by-step instructions, refer to the ShredIt for Mac OS 7 Read me in the documentation folder that comes with ShredIt or download the ShredIt 7 Read me (pdf) now

If a new hard drive is to be installed then, you can use FDISK, a DOS program that comes with Windows to partition the drive. The drive requires active partitions prior to any formatted for installation of any given operating system. As stated previously, partitioning could be initiated by reinstalling Windows. Delete the current partition and reassign the drives. Make sure that no required data is on the disk as this will cause the loss of the data.

Windows: By default, the preferences are stored in HKCU/Software/BitWise Chat/BitWise. Optionally, you may store the preferences in BitWise.ini in your home folder by pressing "Setup" prior to logging in and specifying you wish to store your preferences in that file rather than the registry. Detached mode allows you to use basic client features even when your computer cannot maintain communication with the BitWise server.

Both Netscape and Microsoft have measures in place that limit the number of cookies that will be saved on your hard drive at one time. Both Internet Explorer and Netscape conform to the RFC 2109 limitations on your total cookie count to 300 (this includes a limit of 20 cookies per individual domain). If you exceed this, the browser will discard your least-used cookies to make room for the new ones.

After a cookie is transmitted through an HTTP header, it is stored in the memory of your browser. This way the information is quickly and readily available without re-transmission. As we have seen, however, it is possible for the lifetime of a cookie to greatly exceed the amount of time the browser will be open. In such cases, the browser must have a way of saving the cookie when you are not browsing, or when your computer is shut off.

Each person who has logged into the computer will have his or her files and settings stored in a folder named with his or her user name. Only the person who is logged in (or an Administrator) can access his or her personal folder. To find these user folders: The My Documents folder is located within this user folder (Note: The My Documents icon on your desktop is a shortcut to this folder). Files that were saved to the desktop are located in the Desktop folder.

Doubles are two of a kind on the same throw. If you roll two fives or tens, you would score each face for a total of 10 or 20 points. Otherwise, as Snorky would say, "Double ain't worth squat."

Most external drives you purchase are formatted for PCs. If you are only going to use it with your Mac then you should reformat the drive by using "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". If you are gong to use it with your Mac and a PC then use "MS-DOS file system" format. To format or reformat a drive you will have to erase it. So before you erase the drive, copy your files to another drive.