From now on, I will just have to schedule the downtime and back it up more often since it would be easier than installing a new hard drive on the Mini. I knew Minis were formidable because they’re equal to a MacBook/iBook squeezed into a large candy tin but my hands needed to be reduced by the shrink ray from Fantastic Voyage. Once I scored a putty knife from Home Depot to get the lid off, I thought it’d get easier…until received a gray screen upon booting up. I didn’t take the hint of the replacement hard drive’s screws appearing to be crooked before turning it on; I had only half the data pins from the drive connected to the master bus. D’oh!
It’s all perfectly fine now. I even got the stream (KMAG) updated under the wire for a new week of six fresh hit songs to play amongst the 7400 it shuffles around.
Now to enjoy the rest of vacation and flood Picayune with some overdue stories, reviews and pictures. Right after I see and (hopefully) meet Neko Case.