New Hard Drive

[Karl Larsen]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> 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 ;-)
>>>
>>> cp -av should work, although I doubt if it takes care of the selinux 
>>> magic.   If you want to minimize downtime on an active machine, do 
>>> that or an rsync -avH while the machine is still working, then when 
>>> you are ready to swap, drop to single user mode and repeat the 
>>> rsync, adding the --delete option.  This will quickly update any 
>>> changes since the first copy, then you can swap the disks and reboot.
>>>
>>    I like the rsync method because it is really fast! I had an oops 
>> with the new hard drive. I learned what sata is and my motherboard is 
>> too old. But I bought a pci card that should solve that problem at 
>> the expense of $25.00 and be slow compared to real sata :-(
>>
>>
>>
> Did you order power and data cables too?  They will be different and 
> last time I had to order them separately even with this newer computer.
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
    This whole thing is getting out of hand! I spent $110 for a hard 
drive and then $24 for a controller card and now you verify my fear that 
I need some cables not part of the controller card. But I can turn this 
whole thing off yet with a phone call :-)



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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