Partition Commander???

[W3MIV]

Sometimes I amaze myself with stupid actions. I believe, were I to want to visit Federick, MD, I would start walking east.

I stopped the process. Temporarily unrigged the DVD and connected that SATA cable to the new drive, leaving the old drive on its cable. I was worried that I might need the DVD to boot should I run into problems. That may well be the case, but I have now figured that I can alway reconnect it if I have to. DUH!

:roll:

The system booted normally; PC11 was invoked and ordered to clone the old disk to the new. It is already past the point at which I stopped it, and it had been running steadily since mid-day yesterday!!!

If all goes as I pray I shall have that system back on line shortly.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and ask, "just who in hell IS that guy, anyway?"

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

I have configured dozens of computers with a 2047k C and E drive and the D drive being whatever remains to allow some legacy hardware to work, an IBM CPDP wireless modem for police use.
This means that a 10 gig drive is partitioned into 3 logical drives that I may remap so that the D drive is the CD or DVD drive.
Now, somebody comes along a reinstalls windows, and has one larger C drive, but can not find the other 2 drives, fun.
Needless to say the modem will not work.
I set a flat rate $200 for reinstall and that quickly stopped.
For anything other than the agency I work for (Reserve) I require a formal letterhead before doing anything.
This ended the rest of it.
Now that analog cellular is nearly all gone this is less of an issue, the GSM modems will run under windows 2000/XP but not Vista.
But once installed the software needs to run on that drive.
Putting it on a larger drive will not work as the volume ID will not match.
The preferred solution is to remove the original drive, not changing it in any way, installing a new larger drive, reinstalling the OS or restore, connecting the old drive into a dual drive configuration, and transferring everything between the 2 drives.
Of course installed programs simply do not transfer but the data does and you can create the files on the fly.
Now simply upgrade/reinstall the programs to the larger drive.
Even the ultra high security FBI approved NCIC thing will reinstall since it sees a corrupt install on the same machine and not an external drive.
And yes you can buy long 2 drive 3.5" drive cables that will allow you to connect 2 drives as master/slave to a laptop.
If the new drive is thin enough you may be able to keep this cable attached, otherwise you will need to replace the original cable.

[N1LAF]

...
That said, Windows 7 is a big improvement over the legacy Windows nonsense.

From a dumb user perspective...

[NQ6U]

I thought that Partition Commander was some sort of female dominance fetish.

[W3MIV]

I thought that Partition Commander was some sort of female dominance fetish.

Could be. It is certainly an "albi-dominance" fetish. I'm too damned old to waste that much time screwing around with computers. Fer shure.

I am posting this witless bit of prose on the corrected computer. So far, it seems I have not lost anything, and I do not have to re-download some tens of bazillions of meggerbites of Windoze updates -- such fate would have bitten hard on the ass had I reinstalled the OS from the OEM CD I bought when this bucket of silicon bits and sundries was but a neatly packaged equivalent of any ham's junk box.

Suitable to the tasks to which it is assigned, though I confess that in terms of "state-of-the-art," it is the practical equal of Ollie Evinrude's first prototype versus a canoe paddle.

[kf0rt]

From a dumb user perspective...

Get over your bad-self Paul and write your own OS already. Fly it up the flagpole and let's see who salutes.