poltr1 | Jan. 25th, 2008

I've been wanting to upgrade the 3 Gb hard drive in my laptop for a while.

( Last week, I bought a 6 Gb hard drive on eBay. The gory details follow. )

Lessons learned: 1) Make sure I start with a clean disk, including any hidden system files. 2) It's ideal to take out the hard drives and hook them up to another machine to perform the copy. 3) Give it lots of time.

Now I wish XP Home had an FDISK command to take care of disk work. It doesn't. And my copy of PartitionMagic doesn't work on XP. :( [Updated 22:23] PartitionMagic does indeed work on XP; I need to call the NT flavor and not the 9x flavor.

Shout-outs: Happy birthday