Remove vista to second hard drive

[mikej]

Hi all. I've recently added another hard drive. Present layout is:
sda 250gig, first partition vista, remainder of the drive pclos
sdb 250gig ntfs empty
sdc 400 gig data drive.
What I would like to do is install vista to the sdb drive on its own drive and devote the first drive completely to pclos. Does this mean a complete reinstall of pclos on the first drive, or can I delete the windows partition and resize the existing pclos partitions?  Or is that a recipe for disaster?  The bios on this computer doesn't let me choose boot drives either and I prefer using grub and pclos. If I have to wipe everything and reinstall pclos as well, I will, I have everything backed up but would prefer not to if possible. Would appreciate some input in the best way to go about this. Thanks

[everge48]

That sounds like a job Acronis True Image Boot CD could handle quite easily without creating any recipes for disaster. Unfortunately, it is not free or open source. I just thought I'd mention it just to breath some life into your thread since nobody has replied.
I don't think True Image has any respect for Grub but that's no problem because once you booted into your newly resized PCLOS you could just reinstall Grub the way you want using drakboot --boot.

[Old-Polack]

Hi all. I've recently added another hard drive. Present layout is:
sda 250gig, first partition vista, remainder of the drive pclos
sdb 250gig ntfs empty
sdc 400 gig data drive.
What I would like to do is install vista to the sdb drive on its own drive and devote the first drive completely to pclos. Does this mean a complete reinstall of pclos on the first drive, or can I delete the windows partition and resize the existing pclos partitions?  Or is that a recipe for disaster?  The bios on this computer doesn't let me choose boot drives either and I prefer using grub and pclos. If I have to wipe everything and reinstall pclos as well, I will, I have everything backed up but would prefer not to if possible. Would appreciate some input in the best way to go about this. Thanks

Sounds like it would be easier to move the drive now seen as /dev/sda to the cable of /dev/sdb, and vice versa, saving you from having to do a Windows install. Now install PCLinuxOS on the new /dev/sda. When done, and you know everything works, transfer any Linux data from your old /home on /dev/sdb, then reformat the rest of that drive for Windows use, keeping /dev/sda exclusively for Linux.

[mikej]

Thanks guys. OP, I never even considered moving the cables around, but I am going to give a try what you suggest. Now that an updated ISO has been released, I'm not concerned about a reinstall of the whole lot if necessary. My present install is too large to remaster. I'll let you know how I make out.