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Doktormartini
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Hard Drives questions!

Post by Doktormartini »

I'm not sure if this goes in this forum, but I'm guessing it should. Let me make this short:

I have used windows almost all my life except apple II's in 5th grade and Mac OS9 and OSX in graphics. Other than that...It's always been windows. I wanna try something new so I'm checking out Ubuntu Linux. Here's my questions:

My comp came with an internal 40GB hard drive. That one has Windows XP SP2 on it. I recently bought another internal hard drive 120GB (Western Digital) and here is what I want to do: After I install the other hard drive, I want both of them in my PC but somehow, which I don't know how to do it, I want to move all of my things from my 40GB, OS, Files, everything to my 120GB. Then I want to instal Ubuntu Linux to the 40GB for a Dual-Boot System. How would I move all my files without deleting any for good?

The reason I want the 120GB for windows is that I will probably use it the most and all my files and stuff I have is for Windows. I'm probably not going to be getting as much stuff for Linux as I do for Windows. Please help me out!

Sorry it wasn't really that short and there might be errors as I tyed it kinda quick!

Thanx everyone at ComputerBB! :D
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Post by ccb056 »

Hmmm, I don't know how to copy the entire structure of the disk from one disk to another without using something like partition magic or Norton Ghost, the easiest thing to do would be to install both drives, backup the necessary data, and reinstall the operating systems
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