[brlug-newbies] Newbies Digest, Vol 52, Issue 3

Nathan Toups nathantoups at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 07:38:48 CDT 2007 

So, is this correct?
1) This hard drive that you have placed inside of your computer has backups
of your files
2) You would like to put a distro on this hard drive so you can use this
harddrive to run your os.
3) You would like to access the files you have on there in the new distro
you place on there.

Are we on the same page?
If so.

To be safe, you need to backup this harddrive, some how, before you try
installing this new hard drive. (even if that means getting a friend to come
over with a spare hdd and a laptop...

If you have files on it, you have some sort of disk formatting. If you are
lucky the HDD is already partitioned. If it is partitioned, and it has space
to install the OS and has space for a SWAP partition, you could probably
skip the Backup step (though i don't recomend it)

You could use a LIVE CD to access this hard drive (and back things up), or
to see if you have available partitions for the hard drive.

I am writing this hastily, so please pardon the scatter brained answer.



On 10/15/07, Charles Dayton <charles.dayton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's a former USB cased WD800BB that was intended for a "backup" for my
> home network, but when the HD in one of my boxes went out, I remounted it as
> an IDE, internally in the box.
>
> It has no bootloader, or to my knowledge, anything on it right now.  Not
> even formatted.  Does Linux require the drive be formatted?  I've got a copy
> of Knoppix 4.0 or Unbutu or Xandros 2.0., if not, but those are not
> working either.
>
> So far, I've run a couple of test programs trying to "troubleshoot" the
> box and this is all I can find.  The fan was out on the PS, so I replaced
> the PS (with a slightly higher output, so I think I'm okay there), ran
> "memtest 3.3" on the RAM, "UBCD 411" on the MB and HD,and a HD utility to
> test for bad sectors on the HD. Can you tell from the programs that I'm
> doing this on a shoestring?
>
>
> Chuck Dayton
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> > From: "Charles Dayton" < charles.dayton at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [brlug-newbies] HD Information and question
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> > Has anyone out there tried to replace an "ailing" internal HD with an
> > external type HD, remounted internally, and becoming the primary?
> >
> > I've got the drive physically mounted and hooked up, run scans for bad
> > sectors, etc, but don't know where to go from here.  Can't seem to get
> > it to
> > "boot" the system.  Guess things have changed more than I thought from
> > the
> > "old DOS" days.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
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> > From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com>
> > Subject: Re: [brlug-newbies] HD Information and question
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> > Charles Dayton wrote:
> > > Has anyone out there tried to replace an "ailing" internal HD with an
> > > external type HD, remounted internally, and becoming the primary?
> > >
> > > I've got the drive physically mounted and hooked up, run scans for bad
> > > sectors, etc, but don't know where to go from here.  Can't seem to get
> > > it to "boot" the system.  Guess things have changed more than I
> > thought
> > > from the "old DOS" days.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
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> > > Chuck Dayton
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> > Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:54:13 -0500
> > From: "Nathan Toups" <nathantoups at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [brlug-newbies] HD Information and question
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> > what bootloader do you have installed on the new hardrive?
> >
> > On 10/14/07, Charles Dayton < charles.dayton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anyone out there tried to replace an "ailing" internal HD with an
> > > external type HD, remounted internally, and becoming the primary?
> > >
> > > I've got the drive physically mounted and hooked up, run scans for bad
> > > sectors, etc, but don't know where to go from here.  Can't seem to get
> > it to
> > > "boot" the system.  Guess things have changed more than I thought from
> > the
> > > "old DOS" days.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Chuck Dayton
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