New Hard Drive

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>    I discovered I can buy a new IDE 160 GB Western Digital Hard 
>>> Drive for $83.00 plus shipping. I would like to replace this old 160 
>>> GB with a new one. What method would you suggest for putting all the 
>>> stuff on the old hard drive on this new one? It seems that dd could 
>>> do it but I wonder how fast it would be?
>>>
>>>    Any experience will be appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Do a little more shopping at newegg.com and save a few bucks
>>
>> Seagate 250 GB  $69 + free shipping
>> Hitachi 250 GB  $59 + free shipping
>>
>>
>    OK John you have me hooked. I had forgot newegg and they are the 
> best for parts. I will order from them.
>
>    Now how to put this f7 on the new HD :-(    I have had no help at 
> all so I will do it as I have in the past. I use cp=copy and the 
> switches -av >> file and that allows me to just let the copy happen 
> and when over read file and see what happened 8-)
>
>
>    I have done this more times than I needed to. Worked every time ;-)
>
>
Well looked at the Hard Drives listed and bought a new Western Digital 
SATA 500 GB size so I will have half a terrabyte to play with and it 
only cost $110.00 shipped with 3 day mail. So will put all of f7 on it 
in a 25 GB partition and get things started.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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