On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 09:09, Rodney wrote: > My new Maxtor master hd is dying. A new one is coming in the mail and > "oh joy!" I get to 1) save data to the slave drive 2)ground myself and > swap hd 3)format hd and install Win98 and all drivers and software and > updates (THAT is a PAIN in the ass!). The problem is that when I do > that I'll lose LILO and therefore access to the slave drive/Linux. Are you getting a replacement that is the same make/model? If so, the drive should be the same size, so you can do the "Ghetto Ghost" trick of something like dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=64k assuming that you have the old drive as master, and the new one as slave.. This *should* also work if the new drive is bigger (but you'd only want to do this if there is only a small difference in size -- otherwise you could be wasting valuable space) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Why can't you be a / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ non-conformist like \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) everyone else? [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030606/4640dc0c/attachment.pgp