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to: ROY J. TELLASON
from: TOM WALKER
date: 2005-05-17 07:14:00
subject: HP fun and games

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

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

 I thouhgt that was courious as I have never made a Clone/Ghost of a
Win(fat file system) Hard Disk that didn't boot. Then I rembembered that
you were most likely talking about LINUX.
IF there is not a way then there is another HUGE down side to LINUX. Do
you have to do a total re-install when you go for a Bigger Hard Drive?"?
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