On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:40 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > What is the best way to transfer content of an old HD to a new one > > bigger one? > > what are you transferring the win98 stuff to? win98, windows-other, > gentoo?
Unfortunately yes, :-( I have to stick to that windows 98 for a bit longer till I find a replacement for Dental Program for my wife. The computer is running only Windows 98 with one dental program. > in any case, make the new hd your primary one (primary master), and the > old one secondary (primary slave or secondary master). The boot to your > new hd, mount your old hd, and copy! The easiest method to transfer would be to install new drive as master change the existing one old one as slave. Boot from Knoppix CD and do: # dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda Reboot the computer and that should do it I think. Did I miss anything? > > > I do not subscribe to software vendor program as I intent to move the > > whole system to Linux (if I find a suitable dental program as I'm > > hostage of this program) so if I reinstall the program from the CD > > those > > changes will be gone. > > However, if you _don't_ reinstall from CD, you may miss some essential > registry settings and other stuff that windows puts all over the place. > I'd recommend reinstalling from CD, then copying your old contents over > the newly installed one. What is what I'm afraid of. Did anybody performed this operation? > > Lastly, what does the program do? My wife is a Dental Assistant, and > I've been trying to convince her boss to switch to a computer based > appointment and record system, but he doesn't want to spend any money... I know they don't want to spend much money of the program as the program are very expensive. The most important thing Dentists want from their programs is the ability to submit the claim electronically as they get paid faster; and basic recording operations for medical program. Best alternative I've found are: 1.) http://www.open-dent.com/ Though, this misinformed dentist settle on MS NET Framework so it can not be use with Linux as of yet, so even though it is GPL program it is useless for me. 2.) http://www.oemr.org/ This is intended for medical mostly but I think can be customized for dental use as well. I haven't test it yet as in order to use it you need to have PHP4 (they don't support PHP5 yet). Another advantage in OEMR, it is using SQL-Ledger for accounting, which we are using currently so it is an advantage. -- #Joseph -- [email protected] mailing list
