Mike Hicks wrote: >On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 09:09, Rodney wrote: > > >>My new Maxtor master hd is dying. A new one is coming in the mail and >>"oh joy!" I get to 1) save data to the slave drive 2)ground myself and >>swap hd 3)format hd and install Win98 and all drivers and software and >>updates (THAT is a PAIN in the ass!). The problem is that when I do >>that I'll lose LILO and therefore access to the slave drive/Linux. >> >> > >Are you getting a replacement that is the same make/model? If so, the >drive should be the same size, so you can do the "Ghetto Ghost" trick of >something like > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=64k > >assuming that you have the old drive as master, and the new one as >slave.. > >This *should* also work if the new drive is bigger (but you'd only want >to do this if there is only a small difference in size -- otherwise you >could be wasting valuable space) > > > I didn't want to monkey around with the hd cable - detaching the slave and attaching the new to the slave plug and copying... who knows what since the bad hd might have had 'rotten' data. Then re-attaching the hds to their right places.... sounded like skirting too close to disaster for me. XOSLDOS was another suggestion but when I got to the part in the doc about creating partitions I didn't much care for going that route w/o having done it before. I decided to install Win98 and then follow the suggestion of using LOADLIN to re-install LILO. Things went well and somewhere along the way someone suggested that I should just put Mandrake disk 1 in and go in rescue mode. I did and it re-installed LILO. That was 10 minutes ago and here I am in Linux again. Someone in MandrakeExpert helped me with getting the cd to work. Thank you all for your help and suggestions. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list