<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Greetings, I think I see my 60 Gb drive on Amazon. What are some recommended hard drive surplus sites I might want to look at for comparison? Also, currently I have my system partitioned to duel-boot with archlinux and WindowsXP. When I get my new drive, is there a way I can copy at least the windows partition from the old drive to the new one? I can always re-install the default system from the origianl recovery disk (once i find it) and go through the lon process of upgrading 7-years worth of Windows, plus re-install JAWS and KES etc. Reinstalling and configuring arch isn't as daughnting to me. thank you. >From: tony@baechler.net >To: blinux-list@redhat.com >Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:26:51 -0700 >Subject: Re: hard drive replacement questions > >It sounds like a Western Digital 60 GB drive, in which case no wonder why it >developed bad sectors. That's probably a fairly old drive. About four >years is when they develop problems. Yes, I'm sure it's IDE. I might be >able to give you an old IDE drive, but you can probably still find them on >EBay and possibly Amazon.com. Any IDE drives around here aren't for >notebooks and run at 7200 RPM instead of the usual 5400 RPM that most >notebooks use, but if you're in the US and can't find any other IDE drives >elsewhere, write me off list and we can work out something. I can't >guarantee how long my IDE drives will last, but something is better than >nothing. I would want you to pay the postage, but I won't charge for the >drive. I think I might have seen an IDE drive on Amazon, but I wasn't >looking. You can also try the various surplus sites around. > </div></body> </html>