On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, BruceG wrote: > 3. Move PCs to new building. This is just a short walk, so they could be > carried. > Insert floppy in drive to prevent failure. (is there a command to park > the hard drive?). Move the PC, keyboard, monitor, cables and mouse.
Are you using 5.25" drives?!?! If not, don't worry about parking the heads on a floppy drive. In all the years I've kicked about 3.5" floppy drives, I've never had issues with them going bad from that. I do remember the days of 360k floppy drives shipping with a cardboard insert, but these had a much different mechanical mechanism to lock the disk in. Hard drives are autoparking, unless you've got a bunch of really really ancient dinosaurs there. Easy way is don't drop the machine. > 3 LAN printers are on lease. Have leasing company move the LAN printers to > make sure we don't void warrantees. This part is pretty sad, but I guess that's what the leasing company wants? > Okay - if you guys were doing an office move, what else would you include? > It's a MS shop, so Linux would only play in there as a Samba server for file > sharing and for backups. Doing something similar to this now, smbtar works very nicely for backups, Windows 95/98 can be restored on a hard drive right from the .tar.gz and it will work perfectly. Just have to partition the drive, sys c: it, and restore the .tar.gz. Win2000/XP, you have to rebuild the OS, and restore the data files from your backup though. Definately leave enough time to restore a backup/rebuild a machine. Are the machines powered up all the time, or shut down normally at night? If they're powered 24/7, you can possibly expect to see a hard drive not come back after being powered up. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
