Hi, My system drive is making some naughty sounding noises to I'm thinking I'd better do something fairly quickly. I'm wondering what the best solution for this problem is?
I'm really looking for an almost 1 step fix if possible. If I could get a new drive, put it in the box, and then clone to that drive directly that would be great. The system has both Win XP and Gentoo AMD64. The disk layout is shown below. I beleive the way I shoehorned XP into this machine was to steal the original boot partition as a small C: drive and then the buld of Windows is on a larger partition at the end of the drive. The drive is (I think) only about 1/2 partitioned so there is the possibility of creating a new partition to tar something to and then transferring that over the network to some other box for safe keeping. I've never done this before but would like to do something before I find myself having to start over from scratch. Thanks in advance for your inputs. Cheers, Mark lightning ~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 137 1352 9767520 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1353 30401 233336092+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1353 6216 39070048+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 6217 6703 3911796 83 Linux /dev/sda7 6704 8163 11727418+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 8164 9988 14659281 83 Linux /dev/sda9 * 9989 10001 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda10 10002 10251 2008093+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda11 10252 14075 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda12 14076 15292 9775521 b W95 FAT32 lightning ~ # -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
