mutant1345 Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 okay, i know that the people of these forums are very knowledgable in the feild of computers, and i would like to believe i am above average in that feild as well.....my question is I have a IBM Thinkpad R32 series laptop, and it came with a crumy 20 gig hdd (served my purposes for a little under ayear) and i just baught the 80 gig one that ibm offers....it came and i installed it but there is no OS for me to use with it preinstalled or anything, and the intel boot version 2.2 is always reporting a failure.... now im going to try and obtain a windows cd from a freind but if i cant do that, my question is....can i in anyways transfer windows from one HDD to another (i doubt it but i also dont know) ive tried threading through the windows files on my current HDD and i am at a loss... any educational replies for me, or things of that nature would be appreciated,, and yes i did look at ibm.com, but they have no user freindly customer support email sytem or things of that matter and so i come to these forums where i have seen some very smart people to ask my little tch question,...thank you for any help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 No, I've never seen anyone do that successfully. Sorry, perhaps someone else will have a clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutant1345 Posted December 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 ok well now my question is, if you know i i can install windows from a install cd, on just raw storage....nothing to work from on the disk except my computer BIOS detup, once again im not too expierianced with this area...thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 I'm not sure if I understand your question. Can you rephrase it for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Well, Norton has a software for this, it is called 'Ghost'. It creates a copy of the harddisk partition and can recreate the partition on the new harddisk, including restoring OS and Applications. One Problem: Buying a new Windows Install CD on ebay is about the same price... Plus, Windows is the only operating system, that suffers from 'Rotting'. So, once or twice a year, a fresh reinstall is necessary anyway, so this might be a good reason to get rid of all the junk that got installed along the important stuff. If the harddisk is unpartitioned, Windows 2000/XP offers partitioning the drive before continuing the install, so installing on a completely fresh disk is no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutant1345 Posted December 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Yes i know about windows "rotting" i reinstall it with the ibm restore program every few months or so..... i dont have anything really important on my computers hdd now that i couldnt do without, i have backups of all my music.... as for this ghost program, do i need to buy it at a retailer or is it available online? as for my second question chris....i have had it answered already so dont worry about it, thanks anyways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutant1345 Posted December 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 HOLLY DAMN!!!! i could just buy a windows installer.....fer that price ok so i figured that untill i am able to install windows again.... i would try a version of linux, seeing as how its usualy easily obtained and configured, once again an area i am clueless in..... but ive heard people on here have expeiiance with the os... so maybe i can use this for the new hdd? if so some info on it would be appresiated also thank you for the replies so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Runs without any problems here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutant1345 Posted December 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 ok now some questions about mandrakelinux.... in ordder to put it on my new HDD should i boot from the cd i burn the files to, if i want to instsall it , if the answere is yes then i, am done...... i knew i would get some good answeres from here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 You boot from the first CD and follow the on-screen instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutant1345 Posted December 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 okay then i think im set for now.......just got to let it download over night........thank you jadeclaw for the information, if i have anyfirther questiions ill be sure to post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutant1345 Posted December 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 alright i have installed manstrakelinux, and would be enjoying it on my hdd right now, however here is my hopefully final question..... i run my internet now using a woreless notebook pci card (linksys wpc11 ver. 4) this is the only way for me to connect to the internet on any OS, is there anyway to make this work on mandrakelinux i did fiddle around with the driver and the os for a while and am still stuck this is the main obsticle in my way to use the new hdd please reply if you have any answeres thank you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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