On Wednesday 14 September 2005 16:36, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I have 2 hard drives and the XP drive is getting flakey... <snippage>
Hi Doug, The short answer is that your inquiry is Off Topic and your request is not very realistic. Long Answer: This is an XP question, not a SUSE/Linux question. Yes, you've framed it in Linux terms, but the core topic is what can or cannot be done with Linux tools to preserve your *XP installation.* There is no way anyone here can tell you, with certainty, what XP will think of waking up on a new hard drive. Due to the built-in antipiracy protections, it could work but secretly start "phoning home" or it could refuse to boot entirely or it could boot but demand reactivation... these are XP questions and they belong on an XP forum. From a technical standpoint: If you just leave your Linux hard drive out of the system until your XP data is transferred, the new drive is permanently installed and XP is happy, you can put it back and reinstall the missing boot menu (i.e. the boot loader, presumably grub) by booting the SUSE CD and reinstalling it. This procedure will protect your existing Linux installation. regards, - Carl