neubejiita
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Just replaced my 160GB hard disk with another of the same size, a Western Digital 7200RPM drive with 8MB cache as the original drive was about to fail. I copied the whole Linux directory structure across to the new drive, using Midnight Commander: /usr, /lib, /sbin & friends and the /boot and everything replacing the files in a fresh Linux Mint installation on the new hard drive and essentially replaced the whole fresh installation with all of the files and folders from my old installation, just my copying it all across as root, as Midnight Commander can copy everything preserving the attributes, so that is what I did and I am running Linux off that new hard disk with my old Linux installation moved to a new drive it works perfectly! Too easy. Now I have more space to use.
121 Gigabytes is plenty of space for more applications to be installed and room for more kernels to be built as well.code:
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neubejiita said:I wonder if you could do this with Windows 7...
Well, provided you don't delete the MBT and certain system files like io.sys or NTLDR, it should be possible with windows too: the boot loader is tailor-made to seek for these files in "raw" CHS mode without any filesystem awareness, so if you don't delete/move them, things should work afterwards. That is true for most other OSes as well: there's always a "fileless" phase during boot. If you don't delete or physically move stuff that depends on it, you can otherwise replace all other OS files and the "transplant" will work. -
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