Hello everyone! :D OK, here's my problem... I want to backup my old Mac laptop's hard drive to a PC. Can I do that? I tried sending all of the files to a FTP server in my PC, but then I remembered about the resource forks... I can't zip the whole hard drive because I only have 8 MB left in it. *Laughs* What else can I do? Thanks! ;) http://www.boredsource.com/sulfurik/ http://tsfc.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.ath.cx hotline://tsfc.ath.cx Ruffle Mayo says ROFLMAO! :D

Don't zip the files, in any case..the 'zip' format doesn't preserve the separate forks..check some older mac FTP sites for aladdin dropstuff -version 5.x maximum (i think it used to be a 2 week free trial, which should be enough time) the archives it makes will not corrupt when stored on a pc drive as stuffit archives are data-only - the free stuffit expander (version 5.x max, again) will decompress them when you've returned the files to the mac..since you don't have enough room to compress the whole drive, compress bits at a time, like your applications folder, documents, etc, leaving your system folder till last, and after transferring them successfully (by which i mean copy a few back to your laptop and 'unstuff' them to make sure they stored OK on your PC..) you can then clear off space until you have enough room to make an archive of your system folder ( at least twice as much free spce as your total system size). The reason you need so much is that you should not simply stuff (compress) your system folder, but use 'disk copy' - the 6.xx version- to make an image of it first, and then stuff the image instead-- just start up disk copy and from the 'image' drop-down menu select 'make image from folder' and select your system folder- you have options such as read-only compressed, or read-write- i'd go with read-write as it's faster, and the compressed one still needs the same amount of free harddrive space to make, anyways... Also make sure that the images are not HFS+,If you've got 7.5.3 on the same drive then it's not an issue, as the HFS+ filesystem is on 8.1 and above only- but doublecheck just in case.. HTH

"since you don't have enough room to compress the whole drive, compress bits at a time," Bits at a time? Isn't there another way? If there isn't, I'll just forget about it... :P Thanks! l( http://www.boredsource.com/sulfurik/ http://tsfc.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.ath.cx hotline://tsfc.ath.cx Ruffle Mayo says ROFLMAO! :D