Drive Migration

Reki has historically held onto my music and anime for me. She’s been a real sport about keeping it all organized, something I would never have been able to do on my own. For this, I am grateful.

However, in recent years I have been pushing Reki to help with my media-centric projects, giving her undue stress. Nary a moment’s rest with such a quantity of information as I have indeluged her with.

I bought Reki a new 160 gig drive, seemingly the last one that TigerDirect had. She seemed pleased with it, but it’s often difficult to tell.

I added the new drive to Reki, creating one large NTFS parition. I moved the media collection from the 80gig drive onto the new. Booted a Gentoo livecd iso within VMWare with both the new and old drives available physically. Replaced the 3 FAT partitions on the old drive with one ext3, and copied all data back. Hikari will be given a pleasent surprise later. (Assuming she’s not reading my blog…)

I cleaned Reki’s chassis of a layer of dust, her physical form had grown neglected over the years, existing primarily in the wired. I’m surprised her video card heatsink fan still turned.

Hikari will become caretaker of the 50-odd gigs of media, amvs, mp3s, etc; responsible for playback and organization. Gambatte!