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Aloone_Jonez:
The FAT32 partition transferred but the others did not.

It looks like I'm going to end up taring the contents of documents and settings and Linux home directory to the FAT32 partition on the new drive and installing Linux and Windows on the new drive.

Aloone_Jonez:
I've installed Windows and Linux.

I fucking hate installing OSes.

Don't get me wrong, actually installing the OS isn't the problem, it's installing all the other software and downloading the updates that pisses me off. After installing Windows, I ran the MS Update and it installed couple of hundred MB of updates, I rebooted and ran it again and it still wanted to download more; this happened several times! Why the fuck can't it install them all at once?

I installed Fedora 11 and now I'm waiting for it to download and install nearly 1BG of updates. Then I've got to install OpenOffice.org, Kolour Paint, WINE, DOSEmu, RPM Fusion, multimedia codecs, DOSBox and the printer and scanner drivers as the single CD live distribution does not include them. Luckily most of the aforementioned are packages and can be all downloaded at once but the Cannon LBP-660 driver doesn't and niether does DOSEmu which needs SELinux to be tweaked before it'll work.

Then I've got to transfer the tared Documents and Settings folder to the Windows install. I'm not sure if simply extracting and overwriting the existing files will work. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows is going to make it difficult for me so I'm going to back up the origional, just in case something bad happens.

Refalm:
I use Norton Ghost for Windows installations, it's the best hard drive copy program out there.

There's also an open source version for Linux:
http://g4l.sf.net/

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