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Move hard drive from one system to another.

Asked by txtr8r

I would like to move a hdd from one machine with the users data and have it boot in another machine with her current data on a completly different chipset than it was loaded originally with. I have done this with mandrake 9.5 and the user likes this options however I have been trying to sell her on ubuntu and she likes the look but it is a no go w/o the pnp of moving the hard drive from one system to another. What am I doing wrong.

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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) said : 		#1

> What am I doing wrong.

What have you tried doing? Have you physically installed the drive? When you type "ls /dev | grep hd", do you see the drive?

Basically, what you need to do is:

1. Install the drive. This might involve setting Master/Slave jumpers.

2. Make sure the Linux sees said drive. Try "dmesg | grep hd" and "ls /dev | grep hd".

3. Set up /etc/fstab. You'll need a line like this:

/dev/hdb1 /media/old_drive ext3 defaults 0 0

where you replace "/media/old_drive" with wherever you want to mount the partition, and "ext3" with whatever filesystem it uses.

4. "sudo mount /media/old_drive". Your old drive should now be available... ta-da!

Note that, after rebooting, /media/old_drive should automatically be mounted.

Let us know how it goes... we're here to help!

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txtr8r (thebigcapitch) said : 		#2

Well this is the active drive that holds linux. When I boot to it ubuntu will start to boot but then hangs mid way through and drops me to a dos screen.

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Sergei Plaxienko (sergei-plaxienko) said : 		#3

Check out my reply on this asnwer -- https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/15166

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