Tag Archives: Laptop

How to install Linux into a existing spare partition?

Posted on May 23, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

I am trying to install Linux Ubuntu 7.10 in to a spare partition (drive d) in my laptop. There if 30GB free in dat partition and nothing else saved. However during Ubuntu installation, the Partition part, it would let select the drive and only allows me to use the entire hard drive, I’m not sure wat to do in manual partition manager either. (Live CD) Can anyone tell me a way of installing Ubuntu onto the spare partition without affecting the other partition at all.

The spare partition is ntfs format.
I trying to dual boot with XP Home Edition SP2.

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Tagged Hard Drive, installing ubuntu, Laptop, Linux, manual partition, partition manager

Hard drive recovery?

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin| 5 Comments

Just today a book fell on my laptop and now when i turn it on it tells me that the internal hard drive disk cannot be found. i contected dell and they referred me to a professional compay but they estimated about 500-1700 for recovery. i was wondering if anyone knew of a method that might work without sending it to the professionals? someone i know mentioned a linux live cd. what is that and what would that do? thanks

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Tagged book, cannot, compay, dell, Disk, drive, hard, hard drive recovery, Laptop, Linux, Linux Live CDs, recovery, today

BSOD on my inspiron 9400 every time it turns on.?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

All right, today my laptop (inspiron 9400) running windows xp home edition randomly started giving me blue screen of death every time it’s turned on with this error (STOP 0×000000024 (0×00190203,0×87335828,0xc0000102,0×00000000), then later my cousin found the windows xp cd and every time we tried to use it we got this error (stop 0×000000078 (0xc0000005,0xf786a0bf,0xf7cb6208,0xf7cb5f08)
pci.sys-address f786a0bf base at f7863000,datestamp 3b7d855c), and we also tried using a live linux cd or something to be able to salvage some files to an external hard drive which is all I REALLY want to do then I’ll get my cousin to wipe it and install windows or linux on it again..but yeah, how can I salvage my files? I really need to know

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Tagged blue screen of death, bsod, cousin, Edition, error, Home, inspiron, Laptop, right, screen, time, today, windows xp, windows xp cd, windows xp home, windows xp home edition

Is my laptop Linux resistant?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

I have a Toshiba A215-S7422 and I’m having trouble with linux. I tried to use BackTrack2 a few months ago. When I tried to boot from the live CD, i was able to log in, but when i used starx (i think thats what it was) i started to try to boot, and then it got stuck in a some sort of loop. Today Idecided to try to play aroung with Ubuntu, and when I select the start/install option, it just sits there. My guess is that it is stuck in a loop again, but since it doesnt show the progress like the BackTrack does, im not sure. The CD drive seems to be making the same noise over and over. For both of them I let them sit there for a long time (20 min) It isnt the CDs because they both worked in my desktop, and a friends Dell laptop. Any ideas?

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Tagged backtrack, boot, cd drive, dell laptop, guess, Laptop, laptop linux, Linux, long time, loop, resistant, sort, starx, toshiba, toshiba a215, trouble, Ubuntu