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Troubleshooting a hard drive. Keywords: XP, repair, Symantec, drive letter, shutdown, NTFS, live CD.?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

I tried to troubleshoot a Dell computer with the Windows XP media center edition. Windows appears to be starting up, but it reaches the welcome screen and stays there. I tried booting from a Symantec recovery disc from a Norton Systemworks Premier package in hopes of restoring the most recent settings, but the software couldn’t see the hard drive. I tried to repair the installation with a Windows XP OS CD, but it didn’t seem to see the hard drive, either. I thought I could at least leave an Ubuntu Linux live CD so the owner could access the Internet, and after it loaded, it could see the hard drive. I tried to click on the main partition, and the following error message was displayed:

Cannot mount volume.
Unable to mount the volume.
Details
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0) Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda2′: Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use.

There was more, but I’m running out of space. Is there any way to get back into Windows as it was?

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How to install linux operating system in Windows xp?

Posted on March 23, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I have windows XP SP2 installed in NTFS .When I try to install Linux it shows unable to find hard disk.Even if I repartion the harddisk in FAT.It is unable to detect hard disk.But live CD versions of linux like slax,dynebolic are running well.What I have to do?

Thank you…

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How can I erase all data from my Hard Disk???

Posted on February 11, 2011 by admin| 6 Comments

I have heared that formatting reduces the life of harddisk. Let us suppose I have a virus on my harddisk or my windows is curropted. I want to erase all data from my harddisk including hiddden folder and files like System Volume Information without formatting it. So that I can install windows what should I do? I have NTFS volume. Do u know any live CD linux which supports NTFS filesysystem? I think it will help me to erase data from my HDD.

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Will Linux completely disregard NTFS file permissions?

Posted on October 31, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I have quite a number of files on my hard drive from old Windows installations that I can’t seem to access. Some I can’t even delete and this is a major annoyance. If I boot into a Linux live CD will it ignore the NTFS permissions and let me do what I want with these files?

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How to format my Linux harddrive to NTFS?

Posted on July 30, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

I had a windows vista, then I totally took it off, and put Kubuntu Linux on it with a live cd disk.
I have a windows vista disk and im trying to put vista back on but when i try to format the drive it says its unable to because its not NTFS. How do I take off the linux format and put ntfs on so i can put windows back on?

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