SMART detected imminent failure of the hard disk...

[Michele Zarri]

... or in other words: "You are screwed"

Hello,

The hard disk of my dual boot (WinXP-Ubuntu) is about to die... I have
managed to backup my /home (which luckily was on its own partition), but I
still have three problems (plus many more I will discover eventually):

1. Thunderbird
I have created a profile that I was sharing with the WinXP OS. Due to the
sizes of the partitions the profile was is actually on the partition with
Windows not in my /home. I would really, really like to be able to re-use on
the new hard disk, and my question is:
is it sufficient to save the profile on a DVD or should I export it or
something else?

2. Program profiles
I have set custom options in almost every program I use (e.g. pidgin,
konqueror, OpenOffice.org, gimp, ...) so I have now on a DVD all these
hidden directories that these programs have created.
I would like to re-apply my settings on the new hard disk, so my question
is:
is it sufficient to re-install the programs and then overwrite the hidden
directory they create with the ones I have saved on a DVD?

3. Gnome settings
Desktop appearance, beryl settings, MIME type associations and so on...
are they all in my /home or should I try to recover from the dying hard disk
other directories?

Of course if you could think of something else I should do that I have
overlooked (wouldn't be a bit surprised) please send the suggestions this
way!

Thanks,

Michele
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