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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>o1bigtenor<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 16, 2015 11:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> TCLUG Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [tclug-list] System setup advice request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Greetings<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I have a large system with a fair number of resources which has just come home from the hospital (computer) when I had a disk drive fail abruptly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1.The tech tells me that the hard drive can be accessed. How do I do a low level transfer to another hard drive?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">(This would mean that I would have empty sectors but there is some information that I would like to get.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">2. The drive was my 'operating system' drive. That meant that here is where I kept my 14 VirtualBox machines. (One was my business record keeping (accounting) and that is the one that I want real bad but its
only 16 months of data so it can be redone but its painful!)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How do I set up the hard drive so that files can be moved to my RAID array (which should be just fine) - - - or should I?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Should I be setting up this drive as it was before but just looking for a way to do backups?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">As I understand it operating systems on RAID isn't nice - - - or is it?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I am looking for something that doesn't crap out so completely. I understand I should have had backups but I wasn't able to get the shared folder stuff working so that I could seamlessly transfer stuff to my
main array. That would also be a viable option if someone can tell me how to cudgel VirtualBox into submission.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Questions welcomed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">TIA<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dee<o:p></o:p></p>
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