Upgrading my Thinkpad HD
by David Sudjiman ~ February 8th, 2005. Filed under: Tech.Been off a while from the world while i was upgrading my thinkpad HD from 30GB to 80GB.
I’ve been looking for 80GB Hitachi but no luck, So I think I’ll go with Samsung as the shop recommends it. It cost less about 100 compared to Hitachi HD.
My old 30GB HD paritioned into 3 filesystem, NTFS, FAT32, and Ext3.
The first time I tought I would do all of the data migration using ‘dd’ command from knoppix CD. However, some sources from the net do not recommend that as it has different disk size (and geometry).
But I did try, $ dd if=/dev/source of=/dev/dest. Voila!, it takes about 1 day to transfer about 9GB, and I still have lots of Gigs to go. I think it’s because of the USB-HD problem with low transfer rate, Duh.
then I tried the old way, manual copying. I partition my new HD, boot knoppix, and copy the linux partition.
# fdisk /dev/hda
# make2fs -jv /dev/hda
# e2fsck -cv /dev/hda
# cp -Rvp /dev/source /dev/target
Well, it worked for Linux (and friends), fat32 partitions. Everything seems fine. Including the permissions label for files as I use parameter “-p” for “cp” program.
Now, I’m enjoying my Linux with big HD but still have to have wait to transfer my winxp (NTFS) to my new HD. I heard about captive ntfs, but still not convinced as I tried Norton Ghost and it didn’t work.
Wait, Thinkpad Recovery partition? I have no idea how to transfer it.