On 2008/04/06 01:22 (GMT-0500) JB2 apparently typed:
On Sat 05 April 08, JB2 wrote:
One of my hdd's has finally croaked (SMART said it was hardware....made all kinds of wacky noises too).
My main hdd is 80GB and an ide, the new drive is sata 160GB. I got the new drive to replace my main hdd, so I can move the old main one and make it my backup drive.
The new hdd is SATA. Will it mess anything up to have an SATA drive and an ide drive on my system like this?
Thanks for all the answers everyone! I feel comfortable about it now. As Felix said though in his post, trying to clone what I have now onto the new drive is a little too iffy for me, so it looks like I'll have to put /home on a DVD and start from scratch (the only reason I hate and dread doing it though is because with dial-up it all takes so darn long...oh well).
After sleeping, then rereading the original post, and my answer, and other answers, I see I should have waited until after sleeping to write. :-( For what you want to do, simply: 1-replace PATA device with SATA device 2-install, but don't create any users yet 3-add PATA back 4-ensure SATA is the first drive in the BIOS boot order 5-boot SATA 6-clone contents of old /home to new /home 7-create user account(s) to match the uid/gids of /home All the above presumes you do not have multiple PATA HDs in system before adding SATA. In your original post it isn't entirely clear how many PATA are installed. It seems to indicate both more than one and only one. If you originally start with more than one PATA, disregard this post, or disconnect all PATA drives before beginning to follow the above instructions. Alternatively, due to your dialup connection limitation, you could go ahead and try cloning if you don't have more than 14 partitions per disk, but that will require more detailed guidance from here, and more details of your current configuration, including a list of all PATA and what is on them. -- "Either the constitution controls the judges, or the judges rewrite the constitution." Judge Robert Bork Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org