tranfer of linux image
I had a linux system on a 120 Gb hard disc (Maxtor DiamondMax plus 9).
At some point is stopped working, and I thought the head had crashed.
It appeared that it was only a controller failure, and it was possible
to transfer the contents to another 120 Gb disc (a Seagate ST3120026A).
I put the disc in the drive, and tried to boot it. Would have been
surprised if it had worked at once...
After booting from the disc, the screen was filled with `GRUB GRUB
GRUB'... which does make sense in the way that GRUB was my boot manager
on the old disc, but does not really help for booting.
I booted then from the other disc again (WinXP), wher I can run
explore2fs (a program to access my Linux disc from outside). That always
worked very well with the old Maxtor, but returns an error with the new
Seagate. It gives messages like ``Error: Access violation at address
00097BD1 in module `explore2fs.exe'. Read of address 00921268''.
My guess is that the addressing on the Seagate is somehow different than
on the Maxtor, which makes it less straightforward to transfer a whole
disc image between the two. Is there a way to access the contents of the
old disc on the new disc (e.g. by running a liveCD and then mounting the
disc and re-installing Grub)?
Does anyone who's been in a similar situation know how to deal with this?
Many thanks
Alle Meije Wink
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