Earl Gibbs wrote:
Why not leave your Windows alone on the existing drive and
install a new drive as slave on the primary IDE motherboard port.
Well, it is a question of trying to prove that
Linux is not worse than Windows, a friend of mine
claims :-) He knows that is always possible to use
Ghost for 'cloning' a W2k hard drive to another
one of the same size (or even bigger). The idea is
to prove that Mdk 9.1 (that should be newer O.S.
than W2000, isn't it?) is also capable to be
'cloned' to a bigger /than original/ drive with
preserving the data. Of course, after being
cloned, the new big drive would be placed as the
main drive and the original may be later used for
backup of data or whatever. In short, the idea is
*not* to reinstall anything, but just to get a
'fresh' copy of existing Win/Lin disk combo on a
larger disk.
This would make it hdb -- then do a new install of mandriva 10.1
or ? on hdb.
Ok on Mandriva 10.1 - maybe later. Now it looks
that the old drive has bad sectors and it should
be replaced by a new one without much disturbances.
You wouldnt have to use Ghost on the new drive -- only linux :)
:-)
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