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On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:45 +0000, James wrote: |
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> Ok Albert, |
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> I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. |
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> One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the |
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> virgin drive with DD. |
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> I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive |
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> onto a gentoo partition of another system via a usb 2.0 to |
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> ata/eide cable. |
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> It was suggested this cable: |
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> ttp://tinyurl.com/ynhszy [sic] |
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> But being in Florida and only being able to use the company |
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> credit card over the phone, does anyone know of another cable |
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> I can purchase to back up the laptop's drive? HOwfully a vendor |
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> that takes visa over the phone.... |
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> <brain dead company policy....> |
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I would actually opt for an enclosure. Qalculate is telling me that |
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£24.95 is ~$51 USD. You can get an enclosure at Best Buy , Frys (if |
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they have that there) or CompUSA at around the same price (e.g. |
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http://tinyurl.com/2tfyml). Does your company allow you to go to |
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purchase at a store? |
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Also, you may want to consider ntfsclone instead of dd for backing up |
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ntfs partitions. ntfsclone is sparse-file and free-space aware so may |
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be more efficient WRT disk space and time. I haven't tried it yet |
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myself, but it's on my list. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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