Current situation: Dual booting WinXP and Karmic. 500MB HD in 2 year old Dell giving warning signs of impending doom. Backing up frequently. Have new 1TB HD. Wish to upgrade to 10.04. As XP was supplied with Dell, have no install CD. I have 10.04 live CD and Pmagic CD.
What I want: My old XP partition (legacy software) and 10.04 on the new 1TB drive, with all my data (in Linux partition) and preferably all my settings and installed Linux software intact.
What's the easiest way to do this? Upgrade first? I should probably take this opportunity to put my data on a separate partition to the OS as well, though I guess I can do that later.
What's the best software/commands to use? I've looked at Clonezilla and Partimage, both seem to be able to do most of what I want, but it's going to take hours to figure it all out. The current partition setup is a bit of a dog's breakfast:
[img width=400 height=153]http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll106/mattandleigh/gparted.jpg[/img]
Any ideas?
What I want: My old XP partition (legacy software) and 10.04 on the new 1TB drive, with all my data (in Linux partition) and preferably all my settings and installed Linux software intact.
What's the easiest way to do this? Upgrade first? I should probably take this opportunity to put my data on a separate partition to the OS as well, though I guess I can do that later.
What's the best software/commands to use? I've looked at Clonezilla and Partimage, both seem to be able to do most of what I want, but it's going to take hours to figure it all out. The current partition setup is a bit of a dog's breakfast:
[img width=400 height=153]http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll106/mattandleigh/gparted.jpg[/img]
Any ideas?
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