What's a Good Laptop/Notebook Hard Drive

[n2ize]

Allright. I got a 320 Gig WD laptop drive. Now I just have to install it, partition it, and add the OS'es and we should be back in business.

For my desktop system I got a 500 Gig drive which will replace the 120 Gig I have now which replaced the 80 Gig I was using up to a couple months ago.

Why not use Clonezilla to transfer the existing partitions to the new drive, then use Gparted to expand them accordingly? All you need is a 2.5" USB drive enclosure for the new drive.

Clonezilla is available on a live CD, and does a fantastic job, even with NTFS partitions.

Yes, I am going to. Anything to speed this up.

[n2ize]

We're doin it !!

[ad4mg]

We're doin it !!

I recently discovered Clonezilla and the System Rescue Live CD:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clon...0.iso/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sys...0.iso/download
Awesome stuff!

[n2ize]

We're doin it !!

I recently discovered Clonezilla and the System Rescue Live CD:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clon...0.iso/download
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sys...0.iso/download
Awesome stuff!

I often use the Fedora live CD version to fix my installed system. For example, this morning one of my disk partitions containing a ext4 filesystem consisting of the all important /usr directory was hosed and wouldn't boot. All I needed to do was put in the Fedora 11 Live CD version, fire up the live CD and then do a

# fsck.ext4 /dev/sdb3

to fix the corrupted partition.

Live CD tools are a godsend,.