Subj : HP fun and games
To   : ROY J. TELLASON
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Wed May 18 2005 07:25 pm

RJT>RJT>CA> Make an ISO image of the original hard drive then copy that to the
RJT>RJT>CA> replacement drive.

RJT>RJT>I was actually a little further along than that -- I got as far as
RJT>RJT>copying entire contents of that one partition to another drive.  
RJT>RJT>But it would't boot So at that point I thought that perhaps trying 
RJT>RJT>an fdisk /mbr or similar wou do the trick.  Then I started running 
RJT>RJT>into problems with floppies, and similar nonsense.  Eventually it just 
RJT>RJT>got to the point where I decided that I didn't need those 
RJT>RJT>diagnostics that badly,  and I proceeded from there to a linux 
RJT>RJT>install that's mostly complete.

RJT>TW>  I thouhgt that was courious as I have never made a Clone/Ghost of
RJT>TW> a Win(fat file system) Hard Disk that didn't boot.

RJT>But I didn't do that,  I "copied the contents of the partition",  which you
RJT>quoted here.  What I didn't copy was the MBR,  which probably would have
RJT>helped.  In any case I reached the limit of my patience for screwing around
RJT>with it.

RJT>TW> Then I rembembered that you were most likely talking about LINUX.

RJT>Actually in the case of that partition it said "Loading MS-DOS" when it was
RJT>booted.  The rest of that HD booted 98 when the diagnostics weren't loaded. 
But
RJT>yeah,  the end result loads linux.

RJT>TW> IF there is not a way then there is another HUGE down side to 
RJT>TW> LINUX.

RJT>There was probably a way,  I just wasn't into spending much further time
RJT>figuring out what it was.  Mostly I thought I was interested in salvaging 
that
RJT>diagnostic partition.  <shrug>

RJT>TW> Do you have to do a total re-install when you go for a Bigger Hard 
RJT>TW> Drive?"?

RJT>Nope.  But if one has an upgrade sitting here anyway it gives a good excuse 
to
RJT>do the install.  :-)

RJT>Unlike certain other platforms,  linux has little or no problem with moving
RJT>from one hardware platform to another.  I've done that before.  To simply 
move
RJT>a system to a bigger drive you can do that with no problems.  About the 
only
RJT>software that's dependent on drive geometry and similar issues is your 
loader,
RJT>whether it's LILO or GRUB.  Other hardware is set up,  not necessarily by 
being
RJT>"installed",  but at boot time.

RJT>I once took a couple of drives out of one box (a P200 at that time) and 
plugged
RJT>them in to an other box (a 486 at that time) and it booted right up,  and
RJT>worked.  Slower,  but it worked...

RJT>Try _that_ with any flavor of windoze,  excepting maybe 3.1x...    :-)

I regularly move a smaller drive TOTAL contents (Windows 98, XP etc to
a larger drive with no problems what so ever when booting the larger
drive. Ghost and or the programs supplied by the drive manufacturers
easily do the trick.

Jay
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