From dougie at highmoor.co.uk  Mon Feb 14 19:28:41 2011
From: dougie at highmoor.co.uk (Dougie Nisbet)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:28:41 -0000
Subject: [Durham] Shortcuts to system recovery
Message-ID: <4D5981BF.4000605@highmoor.co.uk>

Right. 320GB drive in laptop didn't like being dropped and is throwing 
up media errors. Tried reinstall and fscks but no joy. But I can still 
read it and have taken backups of my system. I have an Ubuntu install 
dualbooting with XP. In the past I've restored systems by simply copying 
a tarball for the (Windows 98) partition and tweaking LILO. In these 
posh GRUB days I'm not sure how that would work.

Anyway, I'm just finishing the tar backup of my XP partition and I've 
noted the partitioning information. Soon I shall be taking out the 
duff'ish drive and putting in the new one. Same model. a 320GB WD. I'm 
going to try the short-cut method first. i.e. Re-create the partitions 
using Ubuntu live CD then copy the data back for my Ubuntu and XP 
installs from a USB drive. Then presumably I have to do something clever 
to re-create my GRUB files and my MBR. I'm not there for a bit though.

Will this work? Gotchas? Tips?

Thanks,

Dougie



From Richard at helpquick.co.uk  Mon Feb 14 19:59:06 2011
From: Richard at helpquick.co.uk (Richard Patterson)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:59:06 -0000
Subject: [Durham] Meeting reminder - tomorrow 19:30, Durham rowing club
Message-ID: <3DCD4F15-9A62-4E70-8D47-5453CE4F4B06@helpquick.co.uk>

Late once again... Sorry.


Richard Patterson
HelpQuick Ltd

Tel: 0191 258 2888

Web: www.helpquick.co.uk

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From martin at gkc.org.uk  Mon Feb 14 20:21:51 2011
From: martin at gkc.org.uk (Martin Ward)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:21:51 -0000
Subject: [Durham] Shortcuts to system recovery
In-Reply-To: <4D5981BF.4000605@highmoor.co.uk>
References: <4D5981BF.4000605@highmoor.co.uk>
Message-ID: <201102142017.20919.martin@gkc.org.uk>

On Monday 14 Feb 2011 at 19:25, Dougie Nisbet <dougie at highmoor.co.uk> wrote:
> Anyway, I'm just finishing the tar backup of my XP partition and I've 
> noted the partitioning information. Soon I shall be taking out the 
> duff'ish drive and putting in the new one. Same model. a 320GB WD. I'm 
> going to try the short-cut method first. i.e. Re-create the partitions 
> using Ubuntu live CD then copy the data back for my Ubuntu and XP 
> installs from a USB drive. Then presumably I have to do something clever 
> to re-create my GRUB files and my MBR. I'm not there for a bit though.

I have had good results moving backing up and restoring NTFS partitions,
and moving them from one disk to another, using ntfsclone.

-- 
			Martin

STRL Reader in Software Engineering and Royal Society Industry Fellow
martin at gkc.org.uk  http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/  Erdos number: 4
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From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Tue Feb 22 18:54:42 2011
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:54:42 -0000
Subject: No subject
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using the distro&#39;s normal installer. =A0I think some distributions will=
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be able to do the shrinking step themselves, but I went with Parted<br>
Magic as it&#39;s easy to use and it&#39;s always worked well for me in the=
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past.<br>
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HTH,<br>
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