Hello board. After all this discussion on hard drives, I have this question: If I buy a hard driver of larger capacity than the current 60 GB, how can I copy the existing windblows partition on the new drive? I do have a PCMCIA-to-microIDE adapter, which work well on this computer (I've tried it with hard drives from older laptops). I could but linux from a DVD (e.g. Knoppix) and try to copy the existing drive on the new one. Does Windows keep information on the actual geometric location of files on the drive? Plus linux cannot handle WRITING to NTFS very well. Knoppix uses the captive-ntfs file system which originally was able to write on NTFS partitions at will (not just pre-existing NTFS files without changing their size, as the "official" kernel modules are limited to, but ANY files of any size), but my understanding is captive-ntfs is no longer maintained. I would not mind keeping the same size for the NTFS partition on the new drive and allocate the extra space to the linux partition(s).
Any ideas would be appreciated. TIA -- Running 64-bit Linux on AMD64 _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
