Note: Make sure no applications are open except CCCloner when you do this.
1 Download Carcon Copy Cloner for the Mac
1.1 Install it.
2 Get an external hard drive ready and plug it in
2.1 If the network NAS drive causes problems, just connect a firewire drive locally.
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3.1 Select the “source”, or the Internal inside Ma’s computer
3.2 Select the “target”, or the destination firewire or NAS drive
3.3 Click the lock and type in the admin password
3.4 Click “Clone” and wait a few hours.
4 Check to make sure the files are there (do a file size of comparison and random checks in different directories)
5 Format and reinstall OSX on her computer
6 Take Helen’s G4 specs, find out how much RAM you can add, and add at least a 1 GB from Crucial.
BOB