RE: [MLUG] Replacement hard drives for notebook

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Depends entirely on the notebook. I've had no experience with dell
replacements, but the notebook drives I have dealt with usually were much
like miniatures of the IDE drives in desktop PC's.  Now, if I understand
correctly, you're intending on manually swapping drives each time you want
to switch OS's.  This will be more time consuming in the long run.  You also
run the risk of damaging a drive very frequently.  If your concern were
extra storage, I would recommend an external drive, but for using two OS's,
the dual boot is the way to go, its nowhere near as hard as getting into
most laptops.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hancock Jr, Denis C. [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:23 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: [MLUG] Replacement hard drives for notebook


Has anyone tried installing Linux on a replacement notebook hard drive and
simply swapping it in and out with the stock hard drive?
 
The HD that came with my Inspiron 4000 is only 9 gb, and I am considering
purchasing a 20 gb replacement drive, installing Redhat on it, and swapping
it with the WinME drive.  This would have the advantage of not dealing with
dual boot, yet the smaller drive would be available for those applications
that need to run under Windows.
 
The HD swapprocess seems pretty straighforward, but if anyone has any
experience with this they would like to pass on, I would certainly
appreciate hearing it.

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Denis Hancock, Database Administrator 
Maize Genome Database 
213 Curtis Hall, University of Missouri 
Columbia  MO 65211 
(573) 882-1722 

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