-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 Feb 2005 19:32, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I have just bought an extra hard disk of 80GB for my computer. Could > someone here please tell me how to make it my master disk (I still > have the old one of 20GB), without loosing the information on my old > disk? > Had you done a lot of work in terms of configuration or installation on the old system? I ask because probably the easiest thing to do would be to make a new install on the new, bigger disk, then access the old disk as additional storage. Use the Expert option when you get to the partitioning bit. If you had a separate /home partition on the old disk you will be able to use that again, so you won't lose any data. If you didn't, create a separate one on the new disk. You will be able to copy data over later. Mount the old disk in that case under any name you will recognise as being the additional storage. I can't remember whether you can do this at install, but if you can't it's easily done in Mandrake Control Center afterwards. Either way, you shouldn't lose your data. The install only needs to format the partition that will hold your new installation. Home can be re-used over several distros (and often is - I think my /home is on it's fourth use, and could really do with some spring cleaning :-) )
Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCI3mzkFAvMr/nNX8RArllAJ0VBiDc8/HLZCekpCOVptL5XW1EVACeNybt MAN2SXQ0nwU6atE4X55/Ad0= =UNYJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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