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Linux newbie here…Why won’t my LiveCD recognize both of my hard drives?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

My WinXP hard drive recently crashed. I can still access it using my LinspireLive CD, but my slave drive doesn’t show up. My flash drive shows up as a dos disk, and my corrupted drive shows up as winxp, but my slave drive doesn’t show up at all. (I assume it would show up as a dos disk because there is no OS on it.) I tried booting up under Linspire Live without the flash drive plugged in, but the slave drive still did not show up. I would like to be able to move my important files from the corrupted drive to the slave drive. How can I get Linux to recognize my slave drive so that I can do this? (I’m relatively new to Linux so be gentle…LOL)

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Removing Grub Bootloader?

Posted on January 7, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

Ok, so we have a Dell Optiplex running Ubuntu and Windows on two Hard Drives (XP on one, Linux on the Other) Well, it was working beautifully, well, me and my friend decided that we were gonna try to make our own linux using Linux From Scratch, well, that wiped the Hard Drive (the Linux one) so we gave up after having difficulties, well, now when we try to boot into windows, we get the Grub screen, and it says “GRUB Loading stage1.5.
“GRUB loading, please wait…..
Error 15
then nothing happens, we don’t have a Ubuntu live CD anymore, and i think i can get a windows recovery CD, we also have a USB stick running Slax Linux that we could use, how do we fix this problem?
I actually found a windows 98 recovery cd lying around and got it fixed using the fixmbr command, thanks though

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r u using Linux ? i need ur help ?

Posted on January 15, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

i tried the Linux os yesterday from a live cd but i couldn’t do anything expect see the interface and try some games….i couldn’t open my hard drives and i couldn’t connect to the internet…why? and if i installed Linux as a second operating system can i use my windows programs like antivirus programs or Skype or any other program ???

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HP wont load OS can any one help please?

Posted on December 5, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

I have an HP dv9000 that will not load any type of OS i have loaded win xp vista 7 and linux will load a live linux cd but once installed will not boot loads bios but when it gets to windows splash screen it freezes same with linux i have tried 3 different hard drives the RAM is good updated the BIOS also have heard issues with the cd drives not allowing the computer to boot so removed that as well still no fix i am very savvy with the computer but this one has totally stumped me its an HP dv9000 just wondering if anyone has came across this and may have any tips if i cannot resolve it ill just part it out its in excellent shape thanks!!!!

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Accessing hard drives on a computer with a broken OS?

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

Ok my computer crashed and I had to restart it, which resulted in some corrupted system files. I tried a few ways to repair the OS (windows XP SP3), but didn’t have much luck, so long story short, now I want to backup my files so I can do a clean installation.

I’ve already tried using a windows live and linux live ubuntu CD to access my hard drives, which where both successful except that I can’t see my user account files in the “documents and settings” folder, i.e. when I go to C:Documents and Settings, I can only see the “default user” and “all users” folders, and not my own user (user which holds folders like “my documents and settings”, “my pictures”, etc)

I need a way to access those files so I can create a backup, after all, most of my pics and videos and a bunch of other stuff which I treasure greatly are all there and I can’t access them =(

Can anyone help me? thnx
P.S.I didn’t forget to check the “show hidden files” option, so I know that’s not the problem lol.

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