Month: July 2009

Copy Windows to a new drive using Linux

Found a nice post on how to transfer Windows to a new drive using Linux here: http://www.nilbus.com/linux/disk-copy Your mileage may vary but it is simple as: 1> Using fdisk -u  /dev/sdX   (X=new drive), make an exact partition setup on the new drive as the original The -u command allows to size the new drive exact … [Read more…]

My DOS epiphany as of late . . .

Recently during a hard drive upgrade I ran across some IE temp files that got corrupted and just would not delete.  I needed them gone because IMAGEX (an article for a later post) would not work as it couldn’t see these files for the image. Of course you can’t delete the directory they are left … [Read more…]