by James Shatto » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:36 pm
Linux is pretty good about ghosting an image of a drive. As long as the hardware still kind of works. And the remaining contents are usable. It's probably a good ideal to not use / try to use the drive until it can be ghosted. And some info on PATA or SATA hardware type would help. All of my laptop drives are PATA. I have a couple old ones that still work if you need one. 160GB for the largest of the unused ones. 60GB somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure where that one went. I make it a habit of swapping harddrives every year or two just because. But part of that is my venturing into video and audio editing that gives my drives quite a workout compared to most consumers. But to each their own. If the drive is PATA, it'll have some double row of pins that connected it to the laptop. In the neighborhood of 20x2 or 22x2 pins. If it's SATA, it'll be less analog looking. If it's > 320GB, it's probably SATA. If it's PATA, I can help you out. Although I'm not in the neighborhood anytime soon. If you pull the drive, you can stick something else in there and plug away without affected the not installed drive. 320GB PATA drive is like $100-ish at best buy. 500GB SATA drive is about the same. Or was six or so months ago.
Congrats on the kid(s).
Linux is pretty good about ghosting an image of a drive. As long as the hardware still kind of works. And the remaining contents are usable. It's probably a good ideal to not use / try to use the drive until it can be ghosted. And some info on PATA or SATA hardware type would help. All of my laptop drives are PATA. I have a couple old ones that still work if you need one. 160GB for the largest of the unused ones. 60GB somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure where that one went. I make it a habit of swapping harddrives every year or two just because. But part of that is my venturing into video and audio editing that gives my drives quite a workout compared to most consumers. But to each their own. If the drive is PATA, it'll have some double row of pins that connected it to the laptop. In the neighborhood of 20x2 or 22x2 pins. If it's SATA, it'll be less analog looking. If it's > 320GB, it's probably SATA. If it's PATA, I can help you out. Although I'm not in the neighborhood anytime soon. If you pull the drive, you can stick something else in there and plug away without affected the not installed drive. 320GB PATA drive is like $100-ish at best buy. 500GB SATA drive is about the same. Or was six or so months ago.
Congrats on the kid(s).