need to switch computers without losing data

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
> >> My daughter has a PIII with FC5 on it.  Troubleshooting flowchart
> >> indicates power supply died.  We're going to the UMN recycle store, and
> >> get a PIII or newer.  Can someone point me to the steps needed to take
> >> the hard drive out of the dead computer, and put it in the new computer,
> >> and not lose the data?  I'm thinking there might be issues with just
> >> switching hard drive to another computer with different hardware
> >> configuration.
> >> Any help appreciated,
> >
> > My advice would be to mount the drive from the dead computer as a second
> > drive, then wipe the hard disk in the new computer and install FC6 on
> > that. Put /home on a separate partition on that drive.  All your data,
> > settings, bookmarks, cookies etc. will be on the second drive and can be
> > copied into the new /home.
> >
> > The reason I suggest doing it this way, rather than just using the /home
> > on the second drive, is that configuration files used in one version
> > sometimes cause problems in the newer version.  This way you have access
> > to everything you had before, and can use it with the new setup.
> >
> > Of course, you could always just put a new power supply in the existing
> > computer.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Anne:  the phrase, "wipe the hard disk" is the same as, "install FC6
> install CD, and select 'New Install'"?

Depending on the state of the hard disk.  If it's a new one, yes.  If it's an 
old one, it will have directories already on it, and you'll want to get rid 
of them.  All of it is possible in FC6, but some of it not as visible as 
you'd wish.  It would probably be easier to prepare the hard disk by booting 
from a rescue disk and running gparted or qparted.  I may get battered for 
saying this :-), but if you know someone with a Mandriva install or live 
disk, their partitioning tool is very easy to use and very good.  You could 
run the install until after the partitioning, then abort and install Fedora, 
if that's what you want on the disk.

Anne

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