Disk Superduper

HD die tonight, I can obviously replace it with the original disk and there you go! ...

According to my "Mac Tracker" the Late 2005 had a PowerPC . . . and your disk may not recognize that. Granted, "black" may be universal. ...

I've been having a world of trouble getting SuperDuper's scheduled backup to complete without errors. It seems to be a different error every time. I'm backing up my MacBook Pro to a bootable image on a Windows 2003 file server. SuperDuper's support has been terrific and Dave Nanian (who wrote the application, I believe) has provided a lot of input and offered a lot of...

'... should i clone the hard drive ...' - this is you only option if the iMac is booted from MacOS X. '... or just drag folders one by one to the ext drive? ...' - this is not an option with the iMac booted from MacOS X. You will inevitably come across an alert stating that a file cannot be copied, etc. If you can boot the iMac with System 9.2.2 or earlier - you can then...

About a month ago my eMac experienced some disk damage when a command overload caused chaos. Eventually the "Keys Out Of Order" fault was determined. ...

I have since upgraded to Leopard and decided that I would like to use Time Machine instead of SuperDuper backups for now. ...

I believe the original poster mentioned whether it's possible to go back to the previous OS on the Mac which was said to be 10.3.9. The original poster is looking to upgrade from that to Tiger using a friend's disc.

'Dose anyone know if it safe or ok to try to install into my g3?' - Insert the 'DVD' disc (unless you really have the set of 'Tiger' CDs - which you would then insert 'Install Disc 1'), and reboot the G3 Mac with the 'option' key pressed. If the DVD is displayed within the list of boot-able volumes - there is a good chance that the installation is possible. 'Like if i...

Well the best you could do is have something like Alsoft's Disk Warrior and try to repair the disk. Disk Warrior IMHO is the best disk application on OS X, period! ...

You might want to read up on Resolving Kernel Panics to prepare yourself for the next kernel panic if it ever happens again. Cloning is a good way to backup your startup disk. I use Superduper!. Just make sure the external drive has sufficient amount of space to create a clone of the startup disk.