Hi all, So I wrote a few weeks ago about a hosed HD problem I was
having with a dual boot XP and Hoary. Well I got a new hard drive
from Dell today, and I have a few questions. SO this is what I
would like to do....<br>
I have to return the broken drive to Dell, but before I do that I
would like to install the new one, and possible take some of the
data(not all of it is lost) from the original dual boot drive and
transfer it to my new one. Here are my questions:<br>
- First, after physically installing the new drive, what do I need to
do to format the drive for Breezy to install? I have the CD burnt
and ready to go, do I just turn on the computer with the new drive and
boot from the CD and let breezy do its thing?(I am going to just go
ahead and get rid of windows all together on this new drive). <br>
- Once I get to the partition table, how would I go about making home a
separate partition from root and swap? (Please make dirs easy if
possible) so that if I have another crash I can still have home on
another partition(250Gb hard drive).<br>
- Supposing that I get breezy running on my new drive, how would I get
data off the old drive? (I Cant, repeat Cant, make a backup to
transfer... its a long long story) Is there a way to mount it and then
transfer files(mainly music etc.) from my old drive with Windows and
Hoary to my new Breezy install? <br>
-Is there something else that I need to know upon installing breezy on
a brand new out of the box hard drive? I dont need any CDs from
Dell and such do I?<br>
Thanks for listening to all my questions, this list has always been very helpful. <br>
Charles<br>