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On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:40 -0600, Joseph wrote: |
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> > What is the best way to transfer content of an old HD to a new one |
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> > bigger one? |
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> what are you transferring the win98 stuff to? win98, windows-other, |
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> gentoo? |
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Unfortunately yes, :-( I have to stick to that windows 98 for a bit |
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longer till I find a replacement for Dental Program for my wife. |
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The computer is running only Windows 98 with one dental program. |
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> in any case, make the new hd your primary one (primary master), and the |
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> old one secondary (primary slave or secondary master). The boot to your |
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> new hd, mount your old hd, and copy! |
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The easiest method to transfer would be to install new drive as master |
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change the existing one old one as slave. |
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Boot from Knoppix CD and do: |
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# dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda |
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Reboot the computer and that should do it I think. Did I miss anything? |
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> > I do not subscribe to software vendor program as I intent to move the |
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> > whole system to Linux (if I find a suitable dental program as I'm |
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> > hostage of this program) so if I reinstall the program from the CD |
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> > those |
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> > changes will be gone. |
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> However, if you _don't_ reinstall from CD, you may miss some essential |
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> registry settings and other stuff that windows puts all over the place. |
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> I'd recommend reinstalling from CD, then copying your old contents over |
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> the newly installed one. |
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What is what I'm afraid of. Did anybody performed this operation? |
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> Lastly, what does the program do? My wife is a Dental Assistant, and |
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> I've been trying to convince her boss to switch to a computer based |
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> appointment and record system, but he doesn't want to spend any money... |
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I know they don't want to spend much money of the program as the program |
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are very expensive. The most important thing Dentists want from their |
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programs is the ability to submit the claim electronically as they get |
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paid faster; and basic recording operations for medical program. |
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Best alternative I've found are: |
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1.) http://www.open-dent.com/ |
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Though, this misinformed dentist settle on MS NET Framework so it can |
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not be use with Linux as of yet, so even though it is GPL program it is |
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useless for me. |
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2.) http://www.oemr.org/ |
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This is intended for medical mostly but I think can be customized for |
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dental use as well. I haven't test it yet as in order to use it you |
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need to have PHP4 (they don't support PHP5 yet). |
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Another advantage in OEMR, it is using SQL-Ledger for accounting, which |
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we are using currently so it is an advantage. |
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#Joseph |
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