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rustica's place. Now she's come of age and has been in her cottage for five years, and we all drank Sabrage champagne to celebrate. I even had a turn at removing the top of the bottle using the sword - great fun!
Before the party I fitted a wireless network, which took almost 5 minutes. Afterwards I managed to transfer the contents of the disk in her computer to a new and much larger one (250G instead of 20G), so that it boots and has all the original software installed.
First of all I used the administration tools to make and format the new disk to a single primary partition. Then it was necessary to copy the existing disk contents in such a way that the new disk would boot.
To make it all work I used a free partition copying program. It does some of the same stuff that Norton Ghost does, but you don't have to pay £40 just to copy one disk partition. You can download an iso CD image from http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ and burn the image to a CD. Then you boot the computer using the CD and use the command line interface to copy the disk.
Because the copying utility simply makes an image of the disk it is copying from, there was now a 20GB partition plus a lot of unallocated space on the 250G disk. We preferred to have that as one partition.
I booted the computer using a Linux live CD and used the partition tools to resize the partition to use the whole disk. Then it all worked. No, really, not even a squadron of pigs in the sky at the time.
rustica's place. Now she's come of age and has been in her cottage for five years, and we all drank Sabrage champagne to celebrate. I even had a turn at removing the top of the bottle using the sword - great fun! Before the party I fitted a wireless network, which took almost 5 minutes. Afterwards I managed to transfer the contents of the disk in her computer to a new and much larger one (250G instead of 20G), so that it boots and has all the original software installed.
First of all I used the administration tools to make and format the new disk to a single primary partition. Then it was necessary to copy the existing disk contents in such a way that the new disk would boot.
To make it all work I used a free partition copying program. It does some of the same stuff that Norton Ghost does, but you don't have to pay £40 just to copy one disk partition. You can download an iso CD image from http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ and burn the image to a CD. Then you boot the computer using the CD and use the command line interface to copy the disk.
Because the copying utility simply makes an image of the disk it is copying from, there was now a 20GB partition plus a lot of unallocated space on the 250G disk. We preferred to have that as one partition.
I booted the computer using a Linux live CD and used the partition tools to resize the partition to use the whole disk. Then it all worked. No, really, not even a squadron of pigs in the sky at the time.
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Date: 2007-05-07 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-07 10:55 pm (UTC)