<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:jim@oz.net">jim@oz.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Michele Zarri wrote:<br>> ... or in other words: "You are screwed"<br>><br>> Hello,<br>><br>> The hard disk of my dual boot (WinXP-Ubuntu) is about to die... I have<br>> managed to backup my /home (which luckily was on its own partition),
<br>> but I still have three problems (plus many more I will discover<br>> eventually):<br>><br>> 1. Thunderbird<br>> I have created a profile that I was sharing with the WinXP OS. Due to<br>> the sizes of the partitions the profile was is actually on the
<br>> partition with Windows not in my /home. I would really, really like to<br>> be able to re-use on the new hard disk, and my question is:<br>> is it sufficient to save the profile on a DVD or should I export it or
<br>> something else?<br>><br>> 2. Program profiles<br>> I have set custom options in almost every program I use (e.g. pidgin,<br>> konqueror, OpenOffice.org, gimp, ...) so I have now on a DVD all these<br>
> hidden directories that these programs have created.<br>> I would like to re-apply my settings on the new hard disk, so my<br>> question is:<br>> is it sufficient to re-install the programs and then overwrite the
<br>> hidden directory they create with the ones I have saved on a DVD?<br>><br>> 3. Gnome settings<br>> Desktop appearance, beryl settings, MIME type associations and so on...<br>> are they all in my /home or should I try to recover from the dying
<br>> hard disk other directories?<br>><br>> Of course if you could think of something else I should do that I have<br>> overlooked (wouldn't be a bit surprised) please send the suggestions<br>> this way!
<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> Michele<br>Some have good luck with getting one of those little cases that adapt an<br>IDE internal drive (or SATA are available as well) to use an external<br>USB port. You could then partition and format your new drive as you see
<br>fit, then copy everything you want from your /home partition also all<br>you want from your WinXP from old drive to new.<br><br>YMMV<br><br>Jim<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">
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Thanks Jim.<br><br>I think I have seen one of these caddies in the office a while ago... it is worth a try, although I am happy to say that I have managed to put on DVDs almost the whole contents of the HD.<br><br>And of course thanks to Sven for the tip on Thunderbird.
<br><br>Now all I have to do is to wait for the hard disk to die and then buy a new one.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Michele<br><br>