Re: ( OT ) Question for Computer Geeks
- From: Hachiroku ハチロク <Trueno@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:01:34 -0400
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:56:28 -0700, Jeff Strickland wrote:
I have a 20G drive that is filled -- imagine that! -- and a 40G drive that
is not being used for anything useful. My wife has managed to install 20G of
applications and wonders why her machine is slowing down. She has external
HDDs (a Maxtor 500G and a 320G USB drive) to store her files on, so I've
already migrated all of her pictures and data off of the 20G drive, and she
only has about 3G of free space.
You mentioned disk copy software...was it Ghost?
If you're using Ghost, you have to tell it to copy the boot sector.
Load both drives into the same machine with the 20G as Master and the 40G
as Slave. Boot with either a Ghost CD or Floppy (whichever you have) of
follow the instructions with Ghost to make a boot floppy, with the Ghost
CD in the drive. Follow the instructions as best you can (they even throw
me occasionally) and copy the boot sectors and all data sectors from the
Master to the Slave. It should boot.
However. we're tlkaing Windows XP here. IIRC, it worked OK for W2K, but
not for XP. Make sure your copy was made to work with XP. Other than that,
do a sector copy, and then reload XP onto the new drive.
Or:
Unass $85, get a 420G or 500G drive and THEN do all of the above! And have
enough room not to worrky about it for a year or two, or until Microsoft
comes out with another bloated OS
(Actually, Windows 7 looks good. All the good points of Vista with none of
the bloat. Just like M$ does with every other version of a new OS...)
Better yet:
Chuck it all and load Ubuntu. Free software rules!
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