On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Fred James <[email protected]>wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote: > > I have two ide drives in one machine - drive 1 is a Windows drive and > drive > > 2 is a Linux drive. Using grub, I can boot into either windows or debian. > I > > want to remove the windows drive and replace it with a larger, blank > drive > > for backup storage. I have a feeling if I just remove the first drive and > > put the new one there, the machine will not boot, since the MBR is > probably > > on the first drive (it came with the machine, and I just added the second > > drive for Linux). My questions: > > > > 1. How do I change grub on the Linux drive (hdb) to say "the windows > drive > > is dead, boot here instead, long live linux"? > > > > 2. Do I move the second drive to the first ide port, or leave it as the > > second ide drive and put the new drive in the fist ide port? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Mark > > > Mark Phillips > Opportunity knocks? Maybe. Assuming you are not going to do anything > with the MS drive anyway ... > the MB has primary and secondary IDE connectors, and each will > handle a master and a slave (2) drives - that makes 4 (not counting > floppy because that is a different connector) > Actually, there are only 2 ide drive slots available and 2 sata drive slots > do you have space on that arrangement for another IDE drive? > No, only two slots > ... if so ... > add the drive there and you're in. > Would have done that if I could have...;-) > ... if no ... > add an extra IDE connector or two (via a pci card) > Why spend the money? I don't need the tiny (40GB) Widows drive on a Linux backup server. It is old, slow, and small. > add the drive there and you're in. > ... in either case, your mess factor is reduced and you can still boot > MS - or is that something you wanted to ditch anyway? If so ... > add the new drive as in one of the above > format the MS drive to give yourself even more extra Linux space > The 40 GBs are not enough for backups, so I have a new ide drive (250 GB) for backups. > Hope that helps > Thanks for your thoughts, Mark > Regards > Fred James > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
