So, my laptop was creaking with the weight of files more numerous than ants in an anthil, partitions more complicated than back-alleys of Banaras and symbolic links worse than a junction box in a sleepy town in Bihar. And all that accumulated over 5 years (no wonder my shoulders hurt when I carry it).
It is considered remarkable for a hard disk to last beyond 3-4 years and this one is positively a 100GB Fujitsu veteran. Therefore, I decided to upgrade to a new Western Digital Scorpio 7200 RPM 500GB disk and after multiple sessions of clonezilla (thumbdrive based open source disk cloner), many whirrs of Ubuntu 10.04 live cd (it is best to figure out the partitioning before dealing with gparted) and wrestling with bootloader (I'm staring at you Grub, you fithly beast), its finally up and running. No time spent on reinstallation/confiruging either Windows or Linux, no data loss and loads of space with additional 100GB unused.
I used to enjoy this kind of stuff. Now I feel I'm getting too old for this.
It is considered remarkable for a hard disk to last beyond 3-4 years and this one is positively a 100GB Fujitsu veteran. Therefore, I decided to upgrade to a new Western Digital Scorpio 7200 RPM 500GB disk and after multiple sessions of clonezilla (thumbdrive based open source disk cloner), many whirrs of Ubuntu 10.04 live cd (it is best to figure out the partitioning before dealing with gparted) and wrestling with bootloader (I'm staring at you Grub, you fithly beast), its finally up and running. No time spent on reinstallation/confiruging either Windows or Linux, no data loss and loads of space with additional 100GB unused.
I used to enjoy this kind of stuff. Now I feel I'm getting too old for this.
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