[ltp] Re: Ultrabay hard drive

[Dave Atkins]

The frame for a new hardrive (not ultrabay) is fairly inexpensive.  But,
that interfaces, is not really designed for the wear-and-tear of
constant swapping.  But, it would work for occasional use.

I use it to swap my HD into another Thinkpad I have laying around for
troubleshooting.

D.

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 22:04 +0100, Macskasi Csaba wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:05:34 +0100, Josh <josh_0b11111010101@yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Now it's too late for dual booting.  I would rather
> > buy another hard drive than reinstall Linux again.
> > Reinstalling can take a few days to get everything
> > back the way I like it.  Actually, takes weeks before
> > it is completely configured...
> You could make a backup with tar or cp -a. After you have partitioned your  
> disc and installed windows you could just copy back the whole system and  
> install your favorite bootloader.
> Keeping 2 hdd-s seems to be a very ugly solution to me, unless you need  
> more space...
> 
> Regards,
> Csaba
> 
> 
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