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[keyman]

hi,

i am looking for a help in copying my data and accounts from old Hard Drive to the new one which has bigger capacity.


thank you in advance
keyman

[Xous]

Do you need help with installing the hard drive?
What operating system are you using?
What control panel are you using?
Do you have shell/Remote Desktop access?

Where are your accounts/data?

[mitto]

which os you are using? Are you transferring live data? what content do you want to transfer?

if you are using linux then you have to mount new HD in some location of your old HD and then simply use cp command with apropriate parameter.

I welcome other solutions if there!!!

Thanks,

[jackpot]

Get the new hard drive connected as primary slave, secondary master or secondary slave...

After that, when the server is up, type fdisk -l, and determine if the hard drive has been detected. ou shall be able to see hdb, hdc or hdd in addition to the different partitions of hda ( in case it's scsi, they will be sda, sdb etc )

type fdisk /dev/hd* ( where * is b, c, or d - whatever letter that the additional hard drive corresponds to )

You shall be taken to the disk partitioning wizard, where you can create the different partitions of the hard drive. If you do not wish to partition the hard drive, and just need a big complete partition, you can create a single one to occupy the entire space. Please refer http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Install...ing_fdisk.html to learn how to partition using fdisk.

After creating the partition(s), crate the filesystem in it(them) using the command mkfs.ext3:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hd*# ( * = b, c or d; # = 1, 2, 3 etc )

After this, the partitions will be ready to be mounted. You can use the mount command to mount the partitions onto any directory, and copy over anything fom the old hard drive using simple cp or mv commands

[mitto]

Hey,

I didn't think about partitioning and all.....

Wil take care of it

Thanks,

[bear]

Moved to computers

[davccl]

Depending on what sort of data or accounts that you are meaning "to transfer from old to new hdd". For normal data, you may copy anywhere you like and you want. But for accounts, there is over more than a figure of account around, and you should've let us know what sort of account do you meant that you want to transfer. Some "account" word mean, you are using accounting software, and want to backup or copy the data in it to other place, in such terms, you might need to know what sort of accounting software that you are using and by moving or copying to another hdd, would it work like normal? In some "account" word would mean, you have user account on your XP or other windows, and you want to copy the exact account to the hdd, and in such terms, there is no need to copy the user account, as it is just normal or most important data to you that needed to copy or transfer.

Hope that you might give us more details and exact things that you want to do.

[HL-Justin]

I suggest using norton GHOST to simply copy all data over to the other HDD, then retire your current HDD.