On 27 January 2012 20:37, Kwpolska
I bought a new PC. I'm going to get it a bit later, I need a plan for data movement. I created this, can someone please tell me if it's okay, and, if it's not, what should I change?
01. Remove the OLDPC drivers from Arch on OLDHDD. 02. Connect the NEWHDD to the OLDPC. 03. Create the appropriate partitions on the NEWHDD (with new sizes, EXCEPT Shared [NTFS]) 04. Copy (dd) some partitions from OLDHDD to NEWHDD (Arch, Home, Shared) Maybe you shouldn't dd them. If you dd, you will copy every single byte from the old partition. Maybe you can save (a lot) of time if you just rsync/cp them. 05. Use fsck on Arch and Home on NEWHDD (just in case.) # Should I do something to get them to work with the new sizes? # Yeah, you should resize the filesystem to fill the partition but I have no idea how to do that manually. Parted magic does it for me. 07. Resize Shared (NTFS) to the approperiate size. 08. Boot into Windows twice in order to check it. 09. Install GRUB on NEWHDD, shut down OLDPC and connect the NEWHDD to the NEWPC. 10. Install NEWPC drivers to Arch on NEWHDD. (audio/video) 11. Install Windows 7 on the NEWPC. 12. Connect the NEWHDD back to the OLDPC. Re-install GRUB. 13. Boot into Windows XP on the OLDHDD. Copy some bigger Steam games to the NEWHDD. 14. At long last, profit.
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