Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help

2004-05-25 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 19:33, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: Thanks for the reply. That is some terrific information. Another person also hipped me to the 'tar' method of file transfer, although the flags he suggested were different. Thus, I believe I'll give 'tar' a shot first and if that fails

Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help

2004-05-25 Thread et
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 12:33 am, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: diskdrake will setup and offer to copy over the files from whatever the same name partition as you had before, as long as it is one of the partitions you are allowed to put on a different drive from This

Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help

2004-05-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 24 May 2004 12:09 am, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: Mandrake10 . I got all settled in and prepared to copy and transfer away. Wow! I never thought it would be such a process. I am not going to address any of the problems you laid out because I have had the most success doing this in a

Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help

2004-05-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 00:09, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: I have read many HowTo manual concerning anything close to this topic. There does not seem to be a lot out there specifically on partition transfer from disk to disk. Either this is a very easy process and I am one of the few people having

Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
--- Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 00:09, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: I have read many HowTo manual concerning anything close to this topic. There does not seem to be a lot out there specifically on partition transfer from disk to disk. Either this is a very

Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
--- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 12:09 am, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: Mandrake10 . I got all settled in and prepared to copy and transfer away. Wow! I never thought it would be such a process. I am not going to address any of the problems you laid out

Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help

2004-05-24 Thread et
On Monday 24 May 2004 07:47 pm, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 12:09 am, Thomas Wilkowski wrote: Mandrake10 . I got all settled in and prepared to copy and transfer away. Wow! I never thought it would be such a

Re: [newbie] STUCK--Trying to copy old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive. Please Help

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
diskdrake will setup and offer to copy over the files from whatever the same name partition as you had before, as long as it is one of the partitions you are allowed to put on a different drive from This is very interesting to me. I did not know that diskdrak