On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:45 +0000, James wrote: > Ok Albert, > > I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. > One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the > virgin drive with DD. > > I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive > onto a gentoo partition of another system via a usb 2.0 to > ata/eide cable. > > It was suggested this cable: > ttp://tinyurl.com/ynhszy [sic] > > But being in Florida and only being able to use the company > credit card over the phone, does anyone know of another cable > I can purchase to back up the laptop's drive? HOwfully a vendor > that takes visa over the phone.... > <brain dead company policy....>
I would actually opt for an enclosure. Qalculate is telling me that £24.95 is ~$51 USD. You can get an enclosure at Best Buy , Frys (if they have that there) or CompUSA at around the same price (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/2tfyml). Does your company allow you to go to purchase at a store? Also, you may want to consider ntfsclone instead of dd for backing up ntfs partitions. ntfsclone is sparse-file and free-space aware so may be more efficient WRT disk space and time. I haven't tried it yet myself, but it's on my list. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
