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I recently had my hard drive expire on my G5 I have a back up of all data and applications that is on an external hard drive.

How do I now install this back on to my G5 and its new hard drive? Is it as simple as drag and drop? Do I have to reinstall all the applications?

I have wondered with all this talk about back ups, how it actually works.

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