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madeye

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2006-07-19

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[SUCCES] Moving installation to new harddrive

Just wanted to share a little succes story with you, my fellow archers.

I decided to go SATA all the way and remove my last PATA drive. Only a few steps were necessary to acomplish this.

1. Connect the new drive
2. Partition drive
3. Create filesystem (went for a xfs system this time. Old install was on ext3/4)
4. using a livecd copy all files to the new drive
5. change fstab and grub/menu.lst to use the new UUIDs
6. Install grub
7. Boot fallback image and reinstall kernel (got some errors, and this was the easiest way for me to fix it)
8. Reboot and everything works

Anyone tried that with a windows install and having succes with it?

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