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Re: moving harddives from one system to another



On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:35:48PM -0800, nate wrote:
> Hanasaki JiJi said:
> > is it safe to take a harddrive, with data on it, out of one system and
> > put it in another?
> >
> 
> sure. I've never seen a linux system damage a disk by itself. i've moved
> disks tons of times, never had a problem.

Just watch out in the case of systems which might run microfots as
well as linux. If the drive you've moved has any DOS/Windoze
partitions on it, "don't access them from DOS/Windoze" is the safest
rule.

Pigeon



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