Personal computing discussed
nanoflower wrote:Xxclone is fairly straightforward. Yes, you might need to walk her through the options but in the free version there aren't that many since all you need to do is tell it what disk to clone, the destination, let it clone the disk, and then make it active. Less than ten clicks to do it all.
JohnC wrote:If you are afraid that it would be too "technical" for your sister - just download the same utility and run it and guide her step-by-step over the phone or Skype.
PainIs4ThaWeak1 wrote:Unless I'm missing something, why not leave her with BOTH HDDs?
Let her leave the OS on the 250GB, and format and make active the new 1TB.
To me, that sounds like the easiest solution so far.
PenGun wrote:Easiest clone tool. No contest.
dd
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1
You can feed it all manner of parameters but it's pretty smart, it will figure it out.
sda1 being the, I imagine whole disc partition, on the 250 and sdb1 being the whole disc partition on the 1g drive.
PenGun wrote:Easiest clone tool. No contest.
dd
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1
You can feed it all manner of parameters but it's pretty smart, it will figure it out.
sda1 being the, I imagine whole disc partition, on the 250 and sdb1 being the whole disc partition on the 1g drive.
bthylafh wrote:PainIs4ThaWeak1 wrote:Unless I'm missing something, why not leave her with BOTH HDDs?
Let her leave the OS on the 250GB, and format and make active the new 1TB.
To me, that sounds like the easiest solution so far.
You've never dealt with an end-user who doesn't understand computers, have you? That kind of user will fill up the 250GB and ignore the terabyte.
PainIs4ThaWeak1 wrote:I'm fairly certain its possible to train a monkey to do that, using any of the above mentioned methods.
NovusBogus wrote:I promise that I'm not trolling, but the one thing with OS X that I actually liked was being able to uninstall by dragging an app to the trash.Windows has always made it a monstrous pain in the ass to work with multiple logical disks.
bthylafh wrote:PenGun wrote:Easiest clone tool. No contest.
dd
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1
You can feed it all manner of parameters but it's pretty smart, it will figure it out.
sda1 being the, I imagine whole disc partition, on the 250 and sdb1 being the whole disc partition on the 1g drive.
Aside from dd being too simple-minded to tell the filesystem "hey, you've got 1TB now", so now you've got a 250GB partition on a 1TB drive.
If you're going to be so smugly superior with your l33t *nix skills, it'd be best if you had a clue first.
just brew it! wrote:PainIs4ThaWeak1 wrote:I'm fairly certain its possible to train a monkey to do that, using any of the above mentioned methods.
You're clearly over-estimating the technical prowess of a non-trivial percentage of the computer-using (yet non-technical) population. Including, quite possibly, a majority of people from my generation (hint: I was in college when the original IBM PC debuted). The following examples (taken from real life) are sadly typical:
"I can't find the document I wrote last week."
"Well, do you have any idea where you might have saved it?"
"In Word! Where else would I have saved it?"
Or...
"They're telling me that the old network and all the old PCs are being taken out of service, and that I need to move all my important files to the new network. Can you help me with this?"
"Well, where are all of your files now?"
[blank stare]
PainIs4ThaWeak1 wrote:I know I personally couldn't explain that to someone like my 55 year old mother, though she could easily grasp the difference between letters "C" and "D".
PainIs4ThaWeak1 wrote:A sticky note, an E-mail, a desktop shortcut, or [betcha' won't believe this] word-of-mouth [*gasp!*] informing the user to use drive "D" instead of drive "C" to store their data actually turns this incredibly tricky feat into quite a simple one.
I'm fairly certain its possible to train a monkey to do that, using any of the above mentioned methods.
just brew it! wrote:...thereby giving her twice as many places where she can "lose" files?