need to switch computers without losing data

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
> >>>> My daughter has a PIII with FC5 on it.  Troubleshooting flowchart
> >>>> indicates power supply died.  We're going to the UMN recycle store,
> >>>> and get a PIII or newer.  Can someone point me to the steps needed to
> >>>> take the hard drive out of the dead computer, and put it in the new
> >>>> computer, and not lose the data?  I'm thinking there might be issues
> >>>> with just switching hard drive to another computer with different
> >>>> hardware configuration.
> >>>> Any help appreciated,
> >>>
> >>> My advice would be to mount the drive from the dead computer as a
> >>> second drive, then wipe the hard disk in the new computer and install
> >>> FC6 on that. Put /home on a separate partition on that drive.  All your
> >>> data, settings, bookmarks, cookies etc. will be on the second drive and
> >>> can be copied into the new /home.
> >>>
> >>> The reason I suggest doing it this way, rather than just using the
> >>> /home on the second drive, is that configuration files used in one
> >>> version sometimes cause problems in the newer version.  This way you
> >>> have access to everything you had before, and can use it with the new
> >>> setup.
> >>>
> >>> Of course, you could always just put a new power supply in the existing
> >>> computer.
> >>>
> >>> Anne
> >>
> >> Anne:  the phrase, "wipe the hard disk" is the same as, "install FC6
> >> install CD, and select 'New Install'"?
> >
> > Depending on the state of the hard disk.  If it's a new one, yes.  If
> > it's an old one, it will have directories already on it, and you'll want
> > to get rid of them.  All of it is possible in FC6, but some of it not as
> > visible as you'd wish.  It would probably be easier to prepare the hard
> > disk by booting from a rescue disk and running gparted or qparted.  I may
> > get battered for saying this :-), but if you know someone with a Mandriva
> > install or live disk, their partitioning tool is very easy to use and
> > very good.  You could run the install until after the partitioning, then
> > abort and install Fedora, if that's what you want on the disk.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Anne:  Good points.  I got into trouble (still in trouble) when I moved
> my old FC5 install hard drive over to another computer as a slave
> drive.  I installed FC5 on the master drive, but now I have two of those
> virtual groups, so the slave group by the same name can't be accessed.
> Thanks for reminding me about that little detail.

Ah, yes.  I have read of people having problems with duplicate labels.  You 
need someone more experienced than me if that could be a problem.  It's one I 
haven't yet come across.  Sometime soon, though. :-)

Anne


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