Vintage Laptop

[Onoff]

14 minutes ago, pocster said:

Because it’s written in the bible to use a Mac 

 

[Pocster]

1 hour ago, Onoff said:

 

Sure it costs more 

I love it when my wife’s pc has 60 updates to do , and she waits and waits .

I’m going to leave you my Mac in my will ( along with some walk on glazing )

[Onoff]

45 minutes ago, pocster said:

I’m going to leave you my Mac in my will

 

Hopefully I'll have a wobbly table by then!

[Ed Davies]

4 hours ago, Onoff said:

Now I guess to format the CF card and somehow clone the old clunker hdd.

 

If you're happy with using Linux live systems and the CF card is as big as or bigger than the HDD then just use dd to copy the whole HDD to the CF. No need to format or anything. Just be careful that you get the right output disk otherwise ?

 

If the HDD is, say, sdb and the the CF card is sdc then make sure none of the partitions on the either disk are mounted then something like:

 

$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=10M

 

and away it should go copying one disk to the other byte for byte. bs=10M sets the blocksize for the copy, it doesn't make much difference but will likely speed things up a bit. If you've got spare space on the in the CF card you can expand the file system later to use it all (fdisk, e2fsck, resize2fs).

 

If the CF is smaller than the HDD then it's all a bit more complicated.

[Onoff]

5 minutes ago, Ed Davies said:

 

If you're happy with using Linux live systems and the CF card is as big as or bigger than the HDD then just use dd to copy the whole HDD to the CF. No need to format or anything. Just be careful that you get the right output disk otherwise ?

 

If the HDD is, say, sdb and the the CF card is sdc then make sure none of the partitions on the either disk are mounted then something like:

 

$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=10M

 

and away it should go copying one disk to the other byte for byte. bs=10M sets the blocksize for the copy, it doesn't make much difference but will likely speed things up a bit. If you've got spare space on the in the CF card you can expand the file system later to use it all (fdisk, e2fsck, resize2fs).

 

If the CF is smaller than the HDD then it's all a bit more complicated.

 

Ta. 6GB HDD, 8GB CF.

[SteamyTea]

14 hours ago, pocster said:

Borrow a Mac for a week - you’ll bin your windows shite straight away

I started off on a PET, then a Mac, now Windows and Linux.

[Onoff]

Well I got somewhere, in some sense further than I thought I might in cloning the 6GB hdd to the 8GB compact flash card.

 

Macrium Reflect didn't work - errors. EaseUS appeared as though it might until I found out I'd have to pay!

 

I then used the free HDD Raw Copy Tool. First go failed so from the command prompt I ran chkdsk with /f on the source hdd. Didn't appear to fix anything but the second attempt completed albeit with a read error:

 

 

I plced the CF card in the laptops hdd tray and switched on. Failed to boot with the following screen.

 

 

So I deleted the contents from the SYSTEM32\CONFIG folder on the CF card then copied them direct from the source disk.

 

Back into the laptop and after auto detecting / fixing some errors it boots up to the clone of the original desktop, what I was aiming for all along.

 

 

 

 

It all seems dare I say though, a bit clunky/laggy compared to when a proper hdd is fitted. I wonder if a faster CF card would be better?

 

The mouse pad on the laptop doesnt appear to work (did it before I'm wondering???)  so I have to use an external PS2 mouse.

 

The one program I was wanting working, the whole purpose of this really, crashes! I'll persevere and probably try and reload from CD.

 

Quite impressed.

 

 

 

[Pocster]

1 hour ago, Onoff said:

Well I got somewhere, in some sense further than I thought I might in cloning the 6GB hdd to the 8GB compact flash card.

 

Macrium Reflect didn't work - errors. EaseUS appeared as though it might until I found out I'd have to pay!

 

I then used the free HDD Raw Copy Tool. First go failed so from the command prompt I ran chkdsk with /f on the source hdd. Didn't appear to fix anything but the second attempt completed albeit with a read error:

 

 

I plced the CF card in the laptops hdd tray and switched on. Failed to boot with the following screen.

 

 

So I deleted the contents from the SYSTEM32\CONFIG folder on the CF card then copied them direct from the source disk.

 

Back into the laptop and after auto detecting / fixing some errors it boots up to the clone of the original desktop, what I was aiming for all along.

 

 

 

 

It all seems dare I say though, a bit clunky/laggy compared to when a proper hdd is fitted. I wonder if a faster CF card would be better?

 

The mouse pad on the laptop doesnt appear to work (did it before I'm wondering???)  so I have to use an external PS2 mouse.

 

The one program I was wanting working, the whole purpose of this really, crashes! I'll persevere and probably try and reload from CD.

 

Quite impressed.

 

 

 

Hey @Onoff what about finishing this bloody bathroom???? ?

[dpmiller]

Cfs can be slow, yes.