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Fun with Windows
I bought a bigger hard disk before going on holiday. (Morals learnt - read the motherboard manual first, the disk did need the speed jumper; don't let the old disk cable get in the CPU fan; don't assume the hardware is fried when it won't boot after the fan was jammed, try clearing the BIOS settings (another jumper).)
But that was booting off the original disk, and I want the new disk to be the only one. It's a SATA disk. The Windows install disk doesn't recognise the SATA controller. But don't worry, it gives you an opportunity to tell it about additional drivers. Which it expects to find on a floppy. And only on a floppy. This machine has no floppy drive. Never mind, there's an old floppy drive in a cupboard, and I can borrow a floppy cable from the other machine, and dangle the drive outside the case. Except that this power supply has no floppy power connector.
I found a tool (nLite) that is supposed to make it easy to add drivers (and security patches) onto an install CD, but trying to use the resulting CD I just got an error saying the controller driver .sys file was corrupt. So, since the instructions for doing it manually are horribly complex and full of "or whatever the corresponding thing for your driver might be", I think the next step is to put the machines next to each other and have a floppy powered off one being used by the other.
Ubuntu is quite happy with the disk with no extra faff. (I did try just copying partitions with dd, but Windows didn't like the result. (The new partition I was copying to is smaller than the old one (I'm going to have data on a different partition on the new setup)).
But that was booting off the original disk, and I want the new disk to be the only one. It's a SATA disk. The Windows install disk doesn't recognise the SATA controller. But don't worry, it gives you an opportunity to tell it about additional drivers. Which it expects to find on a floppy. And only on a floppy. This machine has no floppy drive. Never mind, there's an old floppy drive in a cupboard, and I can borrow a floppy cable from the other machine, and dangle the drive outside the case. Except that this power supply has no floppy power connector.
I found a tool (nLite) that is supposed to make it easy to add drivers (and security patches) onto an install CD, but trying to use the resulting CD I just got an error saying the controller driver .sys file was corrupt. So, since the instructions for doing it manually are horribly complex and full of "or whatever the corresponding thing for your driver might be", I think the next step is to put the machines next to each other and have a floppy powered off one being used by the other.
Ubuntu is quite happy with the disk with no extra faff. (I did try just copying partitions with dd, but Windows didn't like the result. (The new partition I was copying to is smaller than the old one (I'm going to have data on a different partition on the new setup)).
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There must be an easier way.