Tag Archives: laptop hard drive

erase linux from external HDD?

Posted on January 16, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

I recently installed Linux Ubuntu on a external laptop hard drive to keep vista on my internal drive. Ubuntu worked fine but there was one problem, the external hard drive had to be present in order to boot windows using Grub. In order to save myself from a future frustration (external drive being damaged or missing).
But my problem is this: now every time that I connect my external HDD (with Ubuntu installed) it doesn’t even show up on “My computer”. So I want to format it to the way it was (clean)
If not through windows, Can someone tell me how to format it throu the Live CD?

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Live CD on former XP – view slideshow?

Posted on July 27, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

I have an old Toshiba laptop. Hard drive is fried. Used to run XP Home. now no more. I have been booting from LiveCD of Ubuntu and other forms of linux distributions with no problem. However, I want to run solely a slideshow (like the new picture frames) using a live-CD or a live-usb. How can I go about doing this? Software recommendations? Thanks!

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erase linux from external HDD?

Posted on May 27, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I recently installed Linux Ubuntu on a external laptop hard drive to keep vista on my internal drive. Ubuntu worked fine but there was one problem, the external hard drive had to be present in order to boot windows using Grub. In order to save myself from a future frustration (external drive being damaged or missing).
But my problem is this: now every time that I connect my external HDD (with Ubuntu installed) it doesn’t even show up on “My computer”. So I want to format it to the way it was (clean)
If not through windows, Can someone tell me how to format it throu the Live CD?

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