Peter I think you missed the point of the first post. It was the RAM which was upgraded not the hard drives.
Robert Fisher On 17 Feb 2016 9:44 p.m., "Peter Simmonds" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > How did you actually go about moving windows to the new drive, and if win > 7 or later, did you copy both partitions? If you don't mind, what did you > use to copy these partitions? > > In the past I have successfully used Clonezilla and Redo Backup to copy > windows partitions and keep them working. Both of these are linux live CD's > which you boot from. > > Regarding booting I can only give general advice; Linux is much more fault > tolerant than windows, in other words, when anything minor goes wrong with > windows it simply crashes. With linux, I have actually plugged in a CDrom > with the system on, hard drive spun down then spun up (crashed) and linux > simply sent a reset command to the drive and kept going as it was! Booting > is not an exception really, it has far better programming to enable it to > recover from what may be slightly mashed up partitioning. > > Hope This helps! > > Peter > > On 17/02/2016 19:55, dave wrote: > >> Me thinks that it's the header info that can be seen when responder asks >> the >> question about safebooting in windows. >> >> that's about all i can think of. >> >> dave >> >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:03:02 Kent Fredric wrote: >> >>> On 17 February 2016 at 12:13, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Please do not hijack an unrelated thread, start a new one. >>>> >>> Care to explain which thread was hijacked? >>> >>> All the context I have is: >>> >>> - Person wonders why linux can boot and windows cannot >>> - Second person asks first person if windows safemode boots >>> >>> And that seems entirely reasonable to me. ( Though perhaps different >>> mail clients format it differently, I'm using GMail ) >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >
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