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On 15 April 2012, at 01:18, Dale wrote:
>> =85
>> As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old =
disk?
>> You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is
>> hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later.
>=20
> Well, if I unplug it, how am I going to change the partitions and copy
> the OS back over to it?  I have not tested the hot plug thingy yet.
> Yea, it is supposed to work but . . .

Just boot the computer from the new disk without the old one in, to =
start with.

Something may suddenly make sense when you do so.

Stroller.