Well last Friday night we had the pleasure of going to see the long running Tragically Hip tribute Band The Almost Hip at Central City a local brew pub here in Surrey, BC that has fresh brewed beer and they have their raspberry back, hmmmm beer!

Here is a sample of the video I am using to make a DVD.

Grace Too

You will need DivX to view the 55 MB file.

The Tragically Hip playing Golf.

Found this article while surfing for tabs. It is from 2002 on the Ontario Golf website.

Cheers…

Well it took a bit of trial and error, but I managed to transfer
windows over to the new 40 gig drive with just a few elegant unix
commands.

That dd is an incredable tool. It wasn’t excactly the right fit for
what I was trying to do, but I’m very impressed with what it did for
me, and other functionality I read about in my research.

I installed the new drive as hda, and made the original drive its
slave. I transferred the mbr over with these two commands:

% dd if=/dev/hdb of=hdb-mbr-image bs=512 count=1
% dd if=/dev/hdb-mbr-image of=/dev/hda>&/dev/null

I don’t think the bs=512 count=1, or the >&/dev/null are strictly
necessary, but I got the commands from a forum and, anyway, it worked.

To transfer the data, I decided to try doing it in one step:

% dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1>&/dev/null

Again, I think the >&/dev/null just directs any error messages to
/dev/null, but I included it. When it finished (roughly five minutes),
I mounted /dev/hda1 and there was my data!

Only problem was it essentially created an image of the original drive
and copied it on to the new one, so I was still stuck with a four gig
partition. (You’d mentioned ghost having the ability to resize
partitions. I see your point now.)

No problem, Mandrake can resize ntfs partitions. So I bring in my 9.1
install discs today, begin the install process, resize the partition
and tell it to write the table. Then I run into a glitch: the Mandrake
installer complains if you haven’t defined a root partition. I just
rebooted at that point, but I guess it didn’t update the partition
table correctly. When I booted back into Windows, the Disk Management
tool showed the drive as being one healthy 38 gig partition, but
Explorer showed only 4 gig. I confirmed this by copying files onto the
drive. It ran out of space at four gig.

Once again, open source tools to the rescue.

I had been using my venerable Rescue CD from

http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php

to run Linux on the machine, and it contains qtparted, which is a
graphical front end for ntfsresize. In order to use it, I had to get
that dell to boot in frame buffer mode — no easy task, but the boot
parameter i810fb640 finally did the trick. I ran qtparted, and it
showed hda1 as a 38 gig partition too, but I went into resize anyway
and sure enough the slider was at 4 gig. I moved it up to 38,
committed the changes, booted into Windows and presto! I had a 38 gig
drive.

Like I said, it took a bit of googling and head scratching, but the
whole operation could have been completed in about 20 minutes, with
most of that time devoted to swapping the drives. Oh, yeah, I came
accross some helpful docs for the “L” series dells at

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dmum/index.htm

(I’m including a lot of these links so I can find them myself in the
future … )

That rescue cd could really be a life saver. dd uses stdin and stdout
by default, so it’s perfect for piping input and output to or from a
network share, for example. It can also ignore/skip bad blocks, so
partially corrupted files don’t stop it. I’ve just scratched the
surface, but the next time I have a hard drive crash I’ll know where
to start.

Happy hacking!