moving to a larger hard drive...

[Evan Leibovitch]

Aaron Vegh wrote:
> Unfortunately, there's only one hard drive slot. The mobo allows
> either IDE or SATA connections. So I have the SATA drive inside the
> computer, and the IDE drive in a USB-connected enclosure right now.
> Otherwise, this is exactly what I would have done...

It may take a little more time, but wouldn't it ultimately offer less
hassle to:

- Do a fresh install on the new disk
- mount the old USB-connected HD
- transfer over your data and configurations using something like Unison
or cpio -p

- Evan

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