Hey everybody, I recently purchased a new 160 Gb Seagate harddrive to replace the old 80 Gb one that came with my laptop. I'm dual booting Windows XP and Mandriva 2007 and I'd like to move my Windows partition over to the new drive and (shortly thereafter) add Ubuntu Hardy in the remaining space rather than Mandriva (Ubuntu has really grown on me since someone on this list suggested using Xubuntu on a really old laptop I was restoring). The main reason for getting a new harddrive (besides filling up the old one) was that I have a few bad sectors and it is about time to do something about it. I tried using Ghost and Windows BDD to image the partition while at work but both failed when they hit bad sectors. Now I'm trying partimage running from a Hardy live CD and it's still tripping over the bad sectors. I know an obvious solution would be to just go all linux, but that isn't really feasible for me right now because of the requirements of my job and education. Does anyone know of a way to get that Windows partition over to the new drive intact, or am I going to have to give in, do a new XP install on the new harddrive, and use the Windows Migration thingamabob to transfer my files (and lose all my third-party software in the process)? Any suggestions would be appreciated, I know this doesn't come up a lot. Thanks,
Kyle Oliveira Senior CS Major, UCD _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
