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
29 Dec
29 Dec
5:26 p.m.
Just install the new drive as the second drive. Create a partition on it
and format it for the correct filesystem (fat16/fat32).
Boot windows.
Open a command prompt.
Type "unlock"
after you come back to the prompt, enter :
XCOPY c:. d:. /c /h /e /r /y /k
exactly as above including spaces between arguments.
This will move the entire contents of the original drive to the new one
including makeing the drive bootable and ready to go as the main drive.
Swap drives physically and enjoy.
Regards,
Jeff
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8:27 p.m.
New subject: Mac Portable
I just finished swapping motherboards on some Mac
Portables and am amazed that you can do this without
having to turn a single screw. In fact, you can take
the whole thing apart using a flat head screw driver --
but only to pry up some edges. Can't think of any PC
ever that is or was that easy to work on, and certainly
can't think of a portable that comes anywhere close.
9:40 p.m.
New subject: Mac Portable
IBM's first series of PS2's (models 50, 70 etc) could be fully disassembled
using only fingers and a little plastic tool supplied inside the case. Never
hear of a portable that easy though.
----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne M. Smith <wmsmith(a)earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 9:27 PM
Subject: Mac Portable
I just finished swapping motherboards on some Mac
Portables and am amazed that you can do this without
having to turn a single screw. In fact, you can take
the whole thing apart using a flat head screw driver --
but only to pry up some edges. Can't think of any PC
ever that is or was that easy to work on, and certainly
can't think of a portable that comes anywhere close.
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