need to switch computers without losing data

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
> My daughter has a PIII with FC5 on it.  Troubleshooting flowchart
> indicates power supply died.  We're going to the UMN recycle store, and
> get a PIII or newer.  Can someone point me to the steps needed to take
> the hard drive out of the dead computer, and put it in the new computer,
> and not lose the data?  I'm thinking there might be issues with just
> switching hard drive to another computer with different hardware
> configuration.
> Any help appreciated,

My advice would be to mount the drive from the dead computer as a second 
drive, then wipe the hard disk in the new computer and install FC6 on that.  
Put /home on a separate partition on that drive.  All your data, settings, 
bookmarks, cookies etc. will be on the second drive and can be copied into 
the new /home.

The reason I suggest doing it this way, rather than just using the /home on 
the second drive, is that configuration files used in one version sometimes 
cause problems in the newer version.  This way you have access to everything 
you had before, and can use it with the new setup.

Of course, you could always just put a new power supply in the existing 
computer.

Anne


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