On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 11:18, Jon wrote: > HI, > > One of my hard drives is starting to bite the dust and I'll be replacing with > a newer hard drive. Since the old drive consists of both linux and windows > partitions and I want to copy the data across to the new hard drive (which is > bigger) how do you do it? Also what's the correct sequence in formatting the > hard drive? If this is covered in a FAQ somewhere then please just point me > in the appropriate direction. Thanks. > > Jon.
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