Hi,
My hard drive is really corrupted and I would like to completely wipe out everything and create a new partition...How can I do this?
I have windows 7 bootable disk
Thanks
Is there something equivalent to WebDrive but free or open source ?
Update: I want on Windows if possible and be able to save a file on a virtual ftp drive from any software.
I know already I can type "ftp://[email protected]" into an Explorer address as suggested below but that doesn't transform it into a true virtual drive as i cannot save file from notepad for example.
Hello,
i'm thinking about installing (using Sun Virtual Box) Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows7 on external disk connected to USB port of my new MacBook; do you think perfomances will be terrific? Have you tried something similar?
Thanks in advance !
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Windows 7 backup fails and gives me the message that there is insufficient disk space. I have over 2oo gigs of free space on one drive and 900 on the other.
I want to install Ubuntu from a non bootable Ubuntu disk. I currently have Windows XP installed. How can I do that?
My intention is to remove Windows completely.
The HP DL380 G7 has 3 SAS disks in RAID 5 configuration. I need to change that server to another task and instead of make a clean install on the HP DL380 G6 can i just swap the 3 disks from HP DL380 G7 to the HP DL380 G6?
I expect some driver issues maybe on the OS itself because the processor is different.
They both use Smart Array P410i, if i power down the machines swap the disk by the same order
will the RAID 5 configuration remain and the OS will boot?
Does anyone know if it is possible (and linear) to port a LaCie Big Disk (hardware based array 0) to a linux server? Can I just install the HD's on the server and then mdadm it?
Thank you!
I have this problem with server running CakePHP application. The server is insanely slow, I first thought that it's application problem, but then I found constant 5-6MB/s write to disk.
What is the easiest way to find cause of such a heavy write?
The server is running Gentoo.
We have just moved our infrastructure from physical servers to virtual machines. Everything is running great and we are happy with the result of the move. We have identified one problem, and that is reading/writing performance. We have an application that compiles files and writes to disk. This is considerably slower on the new virtual machines compared to the physical machines.
Is there a performance bottleneck when writing to a virtual hard drive compared to a physical hard drive?
So I screwed up my grub.conf file on a CentOS system and I'm in recovery right now (it's only a test dedicated server). My disks are /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 (RAID 1). Now I need to mount /dev/sda1 and make changes to the grub file, however those changed need to be reflected on the second disk aswell.
How do I mount these RAID disks? I can mount one using mount -t ext3however it will damage the RAID array.
Back in the day, floppy disks were a: and if you were lucky b:, then when permanent storage came along c: was the default for hard disks (as I remember it)
Now that many computers no longer have floppy disks is it possible to have your primary hard disk as A: is the convention out dated?
Removable drives (like DVDs and flash readers) now seem to take lower precedence than permanent storage so it is a bit of an oddity that floppy disks should have higher letters.
Ok, so, I have one of those fancy schmancy devices, which is given to me by a frustrated friend of mine.
Device is a Prestigio Leather 8GB, which identifies itself to Linux host as:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1307:0165 Transcend Information, Inc. 2GB/4GB Flash Drive
Kernel messages as USB device is plugged in:
kernel: [ 2769.580042] usb 1-9: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
kernel: [ 2769.714782] scsi8 : usb-storage 1-9:1.0
kernel: [ 2770.713937] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access 8192MB flash drive 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
kernel: [ 2770.714535] scsi 8:0:0:1: Direct-Access 8192MB flash drive 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
kernel: [ 2770.715734] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
kernel: [ 2770.716108] sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
kernel: [ 2770.722175] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] 962560 512-byte logical blocks: (492 MB/470 MiB)
kernel: [ 2770.722657] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is on
kernel: [ 2770.731078] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdd] 14012416 512-byte logical blocks: (7.17 GB/6.68 GiB)
kernel: [ 2770.731215] sdc:
kernel: [ 2770.738251] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdd] Write Protect is off
kernel: [ 2770.880328]
kernel: [ 2770.885876] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
kernel: [ 2770.887442] sdd: unknown partition table
kernel: [ 2771.049605] sd 8:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
So, symptoms are typical for U3-like devices: two separate devices inside of a single flash device. Windows sees it also as two identical usb devices, and mounts two separate drives to system, whereas first one presents itself as a CDROM device, holding a write-protected content, and second is a regular flash-disk partition, that "can" be written to. However, it seems like it's broken in some weird way, since it won't let me write anything to it, format it, nothing, but that's not the issue right now.
Question: How can I unlock entire USB stick so it appears to system as a single, 8GB device which can be partitioned and used normally, without restrictions?
Since it appeared to be an U3 device, I have tried standard utilities: both U3 Uninstaller by u3.com (found on SoftPedia), and opensource u3_tool from sourceforge (on both Windows and Linux). First utility failed to even detect USB stick as U3 device (simply stood idle while I re-plugged stick several times), while second tool failed with some obscure error about SCSI command unable to do something (I might be able to provide exact errors when I switch back to windows). u3_tool -i /dev/sg3 (Display device info) fails with
u3_partition_info() failed: Device reported command failed: status 1
...and every other option fails with same error, minus first part which states which command precisely has failed.
So, apparently, this isn't a U3 device. Or, if it is, it doesn't behave like one.
I read on a few occasions that this device protection is done by special command sent to device which tells it to lock itself, and so there should be an unlock command, that would set drive straight.
Does anyone have any idea about what could I do to this device to fix it?
P.S. I also mentioned a problem with being unable to use second "drive", but I'll tackle that problem when (and if) I manage to merge those two devices into one...
I recently bought a seagate for mac 1tb external hard drive. When I connect to my macbook through the fire wire it works fine, but I also have media on my dell laptop which is running vista. When I connect the hard drive to that laptop using the usb cable vista doesnt recognize it. What am I doing wrong?
I recently bought a seagate for mac 1tb external hard drive. When I connect to my macbook through the fire wire it works fine, but I also have media on my dell laptop which is running vista. When I connect the hard drive to that laptop using the usb cable vista doesnt recognize it. What am I doing wrong?
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Upon starting Windows Server 2008 R2 I get this error message:
Event ID 11 Disk
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3.
There are also also 3 more similar messages for Harddisk 2, 4, and 5, but not zero or 1.
Checking the event viewer reveals it's been going on for 3 months.
I ran chkdsk - no bad sectors.
Any advice on the cause, better still, a solution?
hi guys , i have asked about Gparted doesn’t detect any partitions an i tried the command :
sudo fdisk -l
and the result is (after partition info ) :
Partition table entries are not in disk order
so how to fix this problem , please help me .
thanks
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I just installed Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" and Ubuntu 11.10 on my MacBook Pro. Using these instructions: tuxation.com/creating-home-partition-mac-linux.html . After changing the location of my home folder to the new location, it gives me the error in the title, and my username no longer appears in the login screen. Using the "Other" option with my username seems to make it try to log in, but the screen quickly flashes between blank and a shell before kicking me back to the login screen without notice.
I'm trying to share my home folder between Mac OS X and Ubuntu, using an hfsplus partition (unjournaled) between the two. The home partition seems to mount fine as /home, and I am able to modify it under Ubuntu.
Below is the line I've added to fstab:
/dev/sda3 /home hfsplus defaults 0 1
I should also note that I changed my account's username and home directory location to match this, though I've double checked that and everything seems in order there...
Thank you in advance for any assistance.
Edit: It seems that the /etc/passwd file didn't have my new home directory's location in it, so I changed that, and I am now able to log into my account, although I am still not listed in the login screen, and my username in the menu on the top right shows up as "[Invalid UTF-8]"...
I have a HP Pavilion dv6446 notebook. It had Windows Vista Home premium. After 4.5+ years of usage, just recently it started malfunctioning. While working fine, its screen goes white or sometimes some thin black lines horizontally. Laptop freezes. Hard reboot works.
Again it works for some 2 hrs or so, same error.
To diagnose I did run the Memory and Hard disk check which is present in the Bios Setup.
Memory test passed. Hard disk test returned an error saying something like - "Replace the hard disk". Bad.. Some sectors or platters have gone bad on the disk. (I confirmed this later by further tests mentioned below)
Then I tried installing a Ubuntu 11.10. It listed 3 partitions /dev/sda1, sda2, sda2.
It again gave error and could not install grub loader on /dev/sda1. Bad sectors.
Then redid the Ubuntu installation, this time asked to to install the Ubuntu on /dev/sda3. and kept /dev/sda1 for /home. Installed fine, and works fine as well.
Due to unavailability of WiFi/ Ethernet driver for that adapters under Ubuntu( at least I could not configure them and get the networking working at all), I decided to go back to reinstall windows Vista.
It did install fine. I did not have to format one data partition which has my data. I just formatted one partition which installed Windows So in effect HDD has not undergone a full format here. Worked ok for 1 day. But same white screen and freeze happened. Looks like while it is in use, it accesses the bad sectors for storing some data and that's when it bombs.
I am inclined to think HDD has not failed fully or crashed but has developed bad sectors.
Else if it was a HDD crash, it would have refused to boot at all let alone install on it.
Questions:
Is there any HDD test check under windows or any such tools windows/linux based ewhere which can identify the bad sectors of the HDD and 'lock/isolate' them from further read-write access of any kind.
If not what are my options, if any to salvage this laptop HDD without replacing it.
EDIT:
Would the Disk Error checking tool under windows help in any way?
Hi,
I want to shred a particular drive in my PC and i dont want to recover any files from that drive...Is it possible??If so den which tool(best shredding tool) is best on its own??
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Just recently upgraded Xubuntu 12.10 after having installed 12.04 originally. Ever since that happened, any time I inserted a disk into my DVD/CD reader/writer I would end up getting a number of error messages from my DVD player/Audio player softer, typically with any of them either crashing or returning a GStreamer backend error.
So doing some research I tried to mount it manually, and it typically returned the error messages you'll see below: (using the dmesg | grep "sr0" command)
[17545.435584] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
[17545.492968] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.492981] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.492992] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.493003] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0] CDB:
[17545.493020] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
[17545.493058] EXT3-fs (sr0): error: unable to read superblock
[17545.553224] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.553237] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.553247] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.553258] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0] CDB:
[17545.553275] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
[17545.553312] EXT4-fs (sr0): unable to read superblock
[17545.611482] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.611494] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.611504] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0]
[17545.611514] sr 3:0:0:0: >[sr0] CDB:
[17545.611531] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
[17545.611568] FAT-fs (sr0): unable to read boot sector
When I grepped this, the number of error messages just seemed to spill all over the screen, and typically all revolve around the I/O error.
I then went into VLC and tried to run the stuff through there, but for some reason it won't read with the default devices. Instead I have to manually input sr0 into each of the /dev/ references and it will play just fine, until I exit out of the program, at which point I have to re-input everything.
I have already installed all the media dependencies, both open source and restricted, through the software center.
I just found this strange, as out of the box 12.04 there wasn't any problem what so ever.
At this point, it could be that all my audio CD's are not in a format that is familiar with the OS (I've read in some places that EXTF4 has issues with this) but I don't see how that could be a problem when the above error messages even tested to see if it is EXT3 as well?
I've tried my best to troubleshoot this up till now using existing topics, but it seems that this is a regular problem with a multitude of varying factors that incorporate into it, including but not limited to read/write problems with the format of the CD and right protection.
Is there something integral that I am missing?
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