Always have a set of current, bootable emergency disks for troubleshooting. Three separate disks are suggested by Those Who Know ... one with Apple´s Disk First Aid and Norton Disk Doctor or the equivalent, one with hard drive formatting software, and one with a virus checker. To be bootable, of course, the disks must also contain a basic System Folder.

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