28 Dec
2000
28 Dec
'00
10:22 p.m.
Hi all
From: John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com>
I have a Pentium I wintel box which I've had for nearly five years.
It's 1.9 GB HD has been slowly developing bearing whine for the last
several months. It is getting noticibly louder now and I'm sure this
faithful old HD is nearing the end of it's earthly sojourn.
to move the data.
I just did this to a Windoze 95 box. Firstly, I put in the new hard drive
and installed Windoze on it. Meanwhile, I stuck the old drive in a Linux
box and made a big tarball. Then, I restored the tarball on to the
new hard drive.
Reasoning: the tarball gets all the files, except the bootfiles, and those
get sorted out by the new install.
Won't work (yet) for NTFS, tho.
W