Howard-san, I have several of the KingWin hard drive adapters if you would like to borrow one. Depending on the age of the system and ability to juggle, it might help to have the IDE/SATA --> USB link. Just offering, no biggie.
-Sky Howard White wrote: > SKyDog wrote: > >> Slave the drive to an XP system (I know Howard, I know...) and use >> Ghost32 to pull an image off the drive. Make two copies, and make sure >> you can get to all of the info from the C partition. Copy his info off >> the D drive. Kill the partitions, and use ghost to lay down the C drive >> image back down. Ghost will automagically resize the partition to the >> full size of the drive. put his D drive files in a folder on the C >> drive, and RUN. Get away from this client. You're asking for a lot of >> heartache when someone disregards a system to that degree. >> >> I know you have XP, but let's face it, it's a tool. So is Ghost, so is >> Linux, and G4Linux. I just know that you can use the ghost32.exe and it >> will auto-resize the partition. >> >> -T >> > > Thank you for the quick response, Sky. You are absolutely correct about > turning tail and running away from this client. But an outta work bloke > gotta do what he can. I figure that I should give them the real hard > sell on new desktop systems, UPS and a backup server. They should then > run away... > > I no got Ghost32 and frankly want less to do with Symantec than I have > to do with Microsoft. That does not take away from the elegance of your > solution. I plan to take an extra hard drive along with me as part of > the afternoon's exercise. > > I go in search of Dave Manginelli's SystemRescueCD. Just wanted to know > if more recent versions of parted / gparted (don't care about the gui) > are able to work with NTFS. > > Howard > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
