2012-12-29



I have one machine still running Windows: Zockerbox,  a  computer
for  LAN  parties.  It has a 6 GB hard disk with Windows 2000 and
the three important games (CS 1.5, Colin2, Morrowind)  installed.
I don't need more than that.

As the hard disk is old and a bit small, I moved the system on  a
larger one (40 GB). I found a good tutorial for doing so.  [0]  A
short summary:

(1) Boot a LiveCD

(2) Create a partition on the new disk and set the boot flag

(3) Copy the MBR: `dd if=/dev/old of=/dev/new bs=446 count=1'

(4) Copy the contents: ``dd if=/dev/old1 of=/dev/new1 bs=64k'

I had no problems booting the system from the new disk.

Unfortunately, however, the old system was already damaged,  thus
I  have  some annoying problems from time to time.  Seems as if I
would need a fresh Windows  installation  somewhen.   Then,  I'll
save  a  copy  of the fresh system to be able to clone it back to
start again from a clean state.  On the  other  hand,  my  gaming
times  have  mostly  ended. The last LAN party was one and a half
year ago. Is it really necessary to do that work for a  now  rare
event?

[0]  http://www.2pi.info/software/copying-windows-new-hard-
drive.html


http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>