Actually, if you can afford another disk drive, put in a new drive, install on it. Then install your old drive as a 'second' drive, and copy your config files over.
This way you can keep the old drive for a while after you get things running. Out of the machine is best to ensure nothing happens to it. After a while, get a USB external drive box and put the old drive in it. Then you can reformat it, or whatever you want. Makes for good portable back up media if nothing else! ... Currently, I do this whenever I build a new machine when I can. Yes, I use the old drives as offline backups, 'transportable' drives, and even as extra storage for both Linux and Winders machines. Using crashplan I backup all my machines (windows and linux, multiple of each) to one USB external drive I keep on on e Linux machine. All boxes are onsite (on our wireless lan). It works pretty well. Just a few thoughts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
