Re: moving a drive from one box to another

Yes it should work fine, run (as root) fdisk -l to check
which partition is ntfs and which is ext2/ext3.

raymundo



On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 17:53 -0500, usabdasc@xxxxxxx wrote:
Greetings,

For about a year one of my boxes was set up as a dual boot with Ubuntu
6.10 and Win2K. About a week ago the power supply died and it took
the motherboard with it. After replacing the motherboard and power
supply I had Win2K booting, but I had warnings about drivers being
missing. I started adding drivers and in typical M$ fashion the box
now gives me a blue screen of death with a statement that I don't yet
have all my drivers installed. Blue screen means I can't install
drivers so I am stuck.

I had all my really important files backed up, but there are files on
the drive I would like to recover. Other than recovering these files
I would love to wipe the drive clean and set it up with Ubuntu 7.x and
a clean install of Win2K. Can I move the drive to another Ubuntu box
and mount the NTFS and EXT3 partitions? It sounds possible, but I
hate to try it without knowing that it will work and getting some
advice on how to do it. I don't want to boot from this drive, just
recover files from it. I believe the drive is still good since the
Ubuntu boots (no GUI yet due to new motherboard and different video
chips) and the Win2K booted several times.

Will this work? Any advice? What would be common mistakes when doing
this and how can I avoid them?

Thanks,
Bruce


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