[ale] moving drive structure...HELP!

[Keith Morris]

I apologize for being the eternal newbie...

I have a drive that is about to die...It is the default windows XP drive
/dev/hda

here is the fdisk for /dev/hda:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      4865  39078081    7  HPFS/NTFS


here is the fdisk for /dev/hdb:

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1            15      9729  78035737+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb2   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hdb5          1316      9729  67585423+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hdb6            15      1249   9920074+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb7          1250      1314    522081   82  Linux swap
 
Partition table entries are not in disk order

/boot is /dev/hdb2 and / is hdb6

essentially, I am wanting to remove the primary hard drive...set the
slave hard drive to be master (/dev/hda) and reinstall grub so that it
will boot correctly...

I'm lost!

any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

-- 
Keith Morris <keith_morris at comcast.net>

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