On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Dave Howorth wrote: > WD recently broke the ATA specs on new drives in order to force people to > buy their expensive drives. I bought several and have had one fail after a > short time with an intermittent fault. Seagate have had problems with > their attitude to Linux support for a while now. That's my prejudice > anyway.
Thanks for the insights, Dave. I checked techbargains.com and learned that Newegg has a coupon code expiring today for a Hitachi 2T/7200rpm SATE3 drive for $97 (with free shipping). While I've no idea what I'd put on all that space, I'll take your suggestion and buy it. > The way I would do it is to install and configure a new copy of the OS > after you've reconfigured your hardware and then copy all your data files > over. That's what I thought. And this makes perfect sense since I want to move directories from their separate partitions to the / partition. If the motherboard hadn't failed on my old system I'd have a box to use for this. Now I guess I'll open the top of the new case and hook up the power and data cables of the new drive while it sits on a piece of cardbard. > There is no backup of the MBR, not from dirvish anyway. It copies files, > not disk sectors. I didn't think there was a bootable image stored. When I used BRU with my Tandberg tape drives I set up their tool to do a complete restore (including boot records). Never needed it. > I thik Thijs was suggesting that you try to do it by restoring a > complete system image to your new hardware but that sounds fraught to me. I agree. It may work well for those with much greater expertise than I have, but I'll take the longer and more certain route. Thanks, both of you, Rich _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
