> Enclosures are great when you want to keep a drive in there. But in > the case that you want to - say - pull the hard-drive out of your > laptop and plug it into a desktop PC for just a few minutes these > "adaptor cables" are very useful indeed. The link above prices them > at $17 - a price at which, IMO, you can't go wrong.
Sorry I was under the impression he was using a dedicated drive for the purpose. I have a drive/enclosure that I lug around from machine to machine. Though, if it were me, I'd still get an enclosure if just to have that future capability. FWIW, James, as an experiment I did restore the factory partition table, MBR, and Utility and Restore partitions and from there was able to restore my Inspiron to factory defaults. Then I was able to restore it back to the Gentoo/XP dual boot configuration (whew!). The only thing I would change based on the experience is that partimage appears to be a smarter/faster/slightly-easier alternative to ntfsclone and/or dd. And gparted is of course easier to work with than working w/ fdisk/ntfsresize directly. HTH -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
