Disk Upgrades
Dec. 31st, 2008 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI've been a busy geek the past few days.
My 100 Mbps network switch has been a little flaky lately so I dashed out to buy a replacement yesterday afternoon. I was surprised to find that gigabit ethernet devices are now so mainstream they're available at Best Buy... it's apparently been a long time since I've indulged myself in geeky shopping. There is now a spiffy 10/100/1000 Mbps switch on my shelf, although I don't have any machines (yet) which can take advantage of the faster speed. Perhaps I'll purchase the gigabit cards for my machines for a birthday present later in January.
The upgrade of my XP box from a 60 & 40 GB hard drive combo to a single 500 GB disk is now complete. Western Digital's boot partition cloning was a breeze to use; I was ready to employ a number of other methods but thought I'd give WD's apps a try first. Restoration of the photo & movie directories will take a while but they'll complete on their own in another couple of hours.
The 320 GB disk for my iMac has arrived. It's going to be more of a challenge since the iMac can only hold one disk at a time and the default file system is HFS+. I'm going to clone the existing 40 GB boot partition to a USB disk and confirm I can indeed boot from the clone. Once so assured, I'll perform the surgery to install the new disk, partition it and restore the clone. If that all goes to hell, I could always plug both disks into my Linux box, repartition the target disk and use "dd" to replicate the data to the new disk. I haven't done this sort of work on a Mac before so it will be a novel & new experience.
I'm really getting to love being unemployed. Do I really have to go back to work on Monday?
My 100 Mbps network switch has been a little flaky lately so I dashed out to buy a replacement yesterday afternoon. I was surprised to find that gigabit ethernet devices are now so mainstream they're available at Best Buy... it's apparently been a long time since I've indulged myself in geeky shopping. There is now a spiffy 10/100/1000 Mbps switch on my shelf, although I don't have any machines (yet) which can take advantage of the faster speed. Perhaps I'll purchase the gigabit cards for my machines for a birthday present later in January.
The upgrade of my XP box from a 60 & 40 GB hard drive combo to a single 500 GB disk is now complete. Western Digital's boot partition cloning was a breeze to use; I was ready to employ a number of other methods but thought I'd give WD's apps a try first. Restoration of the photo & movie directories will take a while but they'll complete on their own in another couple of hours.
The 320 GB disk for my iMac has arrived. It's going to be more of a challenge since the iMac can only hold one disk at a time and the default file system is HFS+. I'm going to clone the existing 40 GB boot partition to a USB disk and confirm I can indeed boot from the clone. Once so assured, I'll perform the surgery to install the new disk, partition it and restore the clone. If that all goes to hell, I could always plug both disks into my Linux box, repartition the target disk and use "dd" to replicate the data to the new disk. I haven't done this sort of work on a Mac before so it will be a novel & new experience.
I'm really getting to love being unemployed. Do I really have to go back to work on Monday?
