Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-24 Thread Bruce Marshall
]] On Behalf Of Bruce Marshall Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade On Tuesday 22 January 2002 0:06 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote: On 21 Jan 2002, at 12:57, Bill Campbell boldly uttered: BTW: When I got the new hard drive, I called IBM

RE: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-24 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
-Original Message- From: zohar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:52 PM I have once used Symantec Ghost which copied my complete HDD on another disk and after reformatting my HDD I again used Ghost to copy the contents to the original HDD and all

RE: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-23 Thread zohar
Of Bruce Marshall Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade On Tuesday 22 January 2002 0:06 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote: On 21 Jan 2002, at 12:57, Bill Campbell boldly uttered: BTW: When I got the new hard drive, I called IBM support to find out

OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Bruce Marshall
I'm going to be upgrading my Thinkpad A20m to a larger HD. Anyone here know what the options are for moving current stuff to the new HD? I'm familiar with all the mundane stuff of copy partitions, etc but I wonder if two HD's can be hooked up (even temporarily) to do the copy or whether I'll

Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:44:02 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be upgrading my Thinkpad A20m to a larger HD. Anyone here know what the options are for moving current stuff to the new HD? I'm familiar with all the mundane stuff of copy partitions, etc but I wonder

Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Hipp
://www.cybertalk.com/060798.htm - Original Message - From: Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: OT Thinkpad upgrade I'm going to be upgrading my Thinkpad A20m to a larger HD. Anyone here know what the options

Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 21 January 2002 15:26 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:  There are a couple of commercial packages that move stuff from 1 HD to another: http://www.v-com.com/product/dw_ind.html runs on Win but supports Ext2 filesystems and many others. Other helpful links: This company has an impeccable

Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 21 January 2002 15:57 pm, Bill Campbell wrote: I did copy everything from the TP off to the network, and reloaded the old Linux partition back under a directory on the new system so I wouldn't have to be searching for old files.  I also have an Adaptec PMCIA SCSI card for the TP,

RE: Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread kbb0927
Bruce, Not with a thinkpad, but an old Chicony. I bought a 2.5-3.5 power adapter and used DriveCopy 3.0 in my desktops to copy drive to drive with winbloze 98se, suse 7.2, col 3.1beta, etc. Then simply plugged back in the new drive in the laptop and away I went still using the 18G that was

Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 21 Jan 2002, at 12:57, Bill Campbell boldly uttered: BTW: When I got the new hard drive, I called IBM support to find out where to buy an extra mounting bracket for the new drive so I could just swap drives quickly without having to mess with screws and such. The support person said

Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 0:06 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote: On 21 Jan 2002, at 12:57, Bill Campbell boldly uttered: BTW: When I got the new hard drive, I called IBM support to find out where to buy an extra mounting bracket for the new drive so I could just swap drives quickly without

RE: Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 21 Jan 2002, at 20:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] boldly uttered: Not with a thinkpad, but an old Chicony. I bought a 2.5-3.5 power adapter and used DriveCopy 3.0 in my desktops to copy drive to drive with winbloze 98se, suse 7.2, col 3.1beta, etc. Then simply plugged back in the new drive in

Re: Re: OT Thinkpad upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 0:45 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote: As I mentioned earlier, by far the most elegant method if your Tpad supports it, is to get the 2nd HD adapter, and mount both HD's at the same time on the laptop.  Very elegant solution.  I'm pretty sure the Tpad 600's have that