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| Thread ID: 41430 | 2004-01-11 02:33:00 | External HDD | csinclair83 (200) | Press F1 |
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| 206640 | 2004-01-11 02:33:00 | I have a lappy with 30gig hard drive... winxp home etc but i wanna start trying something new like Linux, etc but i dont actually have that much faith in putting it on my internal hdd... i wanna get a small external hdd 5-10gig or something and put it on that and have assurances that if something goes majorly wrong when i fiddling with linux... i can just pull the plug and computer is back to running off internal hdd with nothing wrong (after a reboot) Is that even possible? or is it that anything i do with external hdd would affect internal no matta wat? or is there something else you would recommend for me to do/use? Cheers :-) |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 206641 | 2004-01-11 02:55:00 | There is no such protection ... if you do something silly, you can destroy everything. :D You can do that without even loading a second OS. ;-) Just partitioning the hard drive on your laptop you can lose the lot. If you are running an installation programme on an external; drive you can "accidentally" destroy the contents iof the internal one. No software is user-proof. The safest way to have a multibooting system is to have the Linux boot from a floppy. That way, you have not made any changes to the Microsoft boot area. It's perfectly usable. But the normal way has worked for millions. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 206642 | 2004-01-11 02:59:00 | Even if you installed Linux on the external HDD, chances are it would like to modify the MBR or something on the first HDD, your internal one. It might also run into problems depending on the connection of the external HDD. USB and FireWire external HDDs might not be detected, or else it's just me being stupid [because I once tried installing Mandrake while using a USB keyboard/mouse and it played around like hell]. |
agent (30) | ||
| 206643 | 2004-01-11 03:38:00 | The HDD on your laptop is accessed by removing 2 screws. It then unplugs. You could purchase another laptop drive and "experiment" with it that way, by careful removal of the Windows drive. |
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