Finally got it done. ie I xxcloned my existing HDD (80GB) onto a 250Gb HDD. Now I have space for everything (??) And the old HDD is a valuable backup - how wonderful!
So, when I have had a bit of a rest, I will load Ubuntu and attempt to make a dual boot - as per the any helpful hints I have received from the community. And then I will begin the quest of working with, and learning the Ubuntu religion. Thank you so much everyone for your help. Dave W ----- Original Message ----- From: Gregory Storer To: The Wassermans Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:13 PM Subject: Re: Chicken and Egg At a guess, you will need to get into Computer Management from the Administration tool in the Control panel If the drive is here, you will need to either format it to an NTFS drive, or if you don't want to loose your ubuntu partition you will need to create a new partition and format that partition as NTFS. I used gparted for that and had a good deal of success. I don't suppose you're in Melbourne are you? g. -----Original message----- From: "The Wassermans" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:41:35 +1100 To: "Gregory Storer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Chicken and Egg > Well Greg, I connected the second HDD as you suggested. > > The Second HDD has only Ubuntu on it - by the way. Which might be part of the problem? > > Anyway, having connected it to my dvd cabling it, was recognised by the BIOS. Good so far. But . . . > there was no D: or E: drive in Explorer! However, under My Computer/devices it was listed right under the primary drive. But I couldn't find a way to access it. > > The Second HDD has only Ubuntu on it - by the way. Which might be part of the problem? > > I then loaded the HDD to another computer. Same thing! > > I don't know what I am doing wrong. > > Dave W > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gregory Storer > To: The Wassermans > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: Chicken and Egg > > > Dave, > > As always, check and double check your settings. > > Remember you might have to change the hard drive jumper to slave, > depends on how your computer is set up. > > When I did this, I too didn't want to loose any of my data. I copied > the really important stuff to another computer via my network - > documents and email files. > > The risk is pretty small however, as XXClone is only copying the info > from your C drive to the D drive. Once done, remove your old C drive > and put it aside. There's the perfect back up! I have my old C drive > here and I cloned it some 4 weeks ok. No data is missing and its > working really well. > > g. > > On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:17 +1100, The Wassermans wrote: > > Great idea Greg! > > > > So I will simply clone from C: to D:. Will my PC recognise the HDD > > immediately or will I have to change the BIOS settings first? > > > > I'm a bit nervous about my data. There's not much risk is there? > > > > I'll try it . . . . > > > > Happy New Year to you. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Gregory Storer > > To: The Wassermans > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 9:29 AM > > Subject: Re: Chicken and Egg > > > > > > Hello Dave, > > > > I think I saw another email from you to the list, so perhaps > > you've > > solved this dilemma. If not, I would be using the cable for > > your DVD/CD > > player to be able to clone your hard drive - it should be > > possible. > > > > The computer I did this on was full, a cd player, dvd player, > > and two > > hard drives. I used the CD player cable, xxcloned the C drive > > to it and > > then swapped over the C drive with the newly cloned drive. > > > > Sorry for the delay in responding - its that time of year! > > > > g. > > > > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 12:55 +1100, The Wassermans wrote: > > > Thanks for your very helpful response. > > > > > > I had a look at xxclone. Looks like a good product. I'm a > > bit > > > confused as to if I can clone to a networked machine? > > > You see, my primary machine is a Dell and only has space for > > one > > > drive. That may mean that I have to remove the drive and > > add it as an > > > e: drive to another machine and then add an F: drive as the > > target. > > > The idea would be to use the new F: drive back in the > > primary machine. > > > If you know what I mean? > > > > > > Can't find any info on this in Google. > > > > > > Dave W > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Gregory Storer > > > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > > > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:09 AM > > > Subject: Re: Chicken and Egg > > > . . . . . . . > > > > > > > > > (I use XXClone to clone the XP partition onto the > > new HDD, > > > then used gparted to partition the HDD for XP and > > Linux.) > > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ http://storer.com.au storer webmail
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