[wellylug] hdd transfer

[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:30, Jeremy Z Butler wrote:

> Hi there,
> I'm looking at changing hard drives in my laptop. i.e. shifting from a 6GB to a
> 20GB drive. I've currently got a dual boot win98 and RH7.1 setup. I gather from
> various websites etc. that Norton Ghost is the way to go. Am I right in
> understanding that the programme will copy all my partitions and both operating
> systems from the old to the new HDD and maintain the same partition proportions?
> If so thats damn cool. Interested in getting some feedback about this. Is it a
> good way to go or can it cause problems? And with a laptop what is the actual
> basic physical procedure? i.e. I assume theres only space for one hard drive at
> a time?? hmmm.

Yes. Laptops don't like to be highly upgradable, so you can only have
one drive in it at a time.

Just find someone with a big hard drive, create a samba/nfs share on it,
& copy your files to it.

Then, after you install the new drive & linux, move the files from the
share back over.


--- Jethro

dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/

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