cbagger01
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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,05:06 |
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1)
If you yank the hard drive and connect it to a newer computer, you need to make sure that the hard drive is configured as the same IDE location as it was in your original computer.
So if the drive was set up as the PRIMARY MASTER IDE DRIVE in your old computer, you need to set it up as the PRIMARY MASTER IDE DRIVE in your new computer before you do the install.
2) In general, partitioning programs only modify the partition table. They do not actually FORMAT your newly created partitions. Partition Magic may be the exception, but I don't own it so I don't know for sure.
Usually, in Linux you would make your partitions with a program called cfdisk. For a primary master drive, in a terminal window or in textmode you type:
sudo su cfdisk /dev/hda
and then make your partitions and write the new table. Say for example, you create a Linux partition (to be EXT2) at location #2 and a Linux swap partition at location #3. To format them, you type:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda2 mkswap /dev/hda3 swapon
and then you can do the full HD installation to /dev/hda2
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