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Hard Drive PROBLEM!?

Posted on February 9, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

OK my laptop hasn’t been working for a few months now for unknown reasons. But the bottom line is: i try to reformat and stuff but it says no hard drive found so it can’t reformat. =/ If you’re wondering what happens when i boot my laptop, when I turn it on, it doesn’t go to the windows screen (where windows XP is loading) it just stays black with a white dashed line blinking int he corner. However, I am able to boot up a linux Live CD (backtrack 2 and knoppix both work) and able to go online and stuff with them. So i dunno is my hard drive broken? or still working in a way? any ideas?

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Linux Knoppix 5.1, need experts help?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by admin| 2 Comments

Im having a problem lol….

Got a Laptop booted into Knoppix 5.1, everything is working fine, cd burner is working aswell

one problem… im using a usb stick and i need the live CD….

How can i tell linux to create an ISO of it’s self and burn it onto a blank CD?

P.S The memory stick is only 1GIG and the files on it are Not an ISO……

I have lots of blank CD’s and everythings working fine so far like i said

please help….. im in the dark here

If you have any other suggestions just tell please…
Ok… I have 2 laptops , one is working with XP on it but no Cd-burner… only a dvd-rom for watching movies ( dumb i know.. i hate IBM)

Now my nice laptop

has no hard drive but it can burn cd’s and movies etc etc

So im stuck with using a USB 1gig..

actualy lol i just had an idea…..i think i answered my question lol

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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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GRUB Problems – Linux HELP!!!?

Posted on December 18, 2011 by admin| 3 Comments

Hi,
I installed uBuntu last week. All was fine, rebooted fine etc. Until i turned on my pc today. It just stopped at the “loading GRUB Page”. Heres what it said..
”
GRUB loading..stage1.5

GRUB Loading, Please wait.
Error 15
”
As i said it’s never, ever done this before, just when i turned on my pc today. The last time i shut down uBuntu i didn’t tell it to shut down, i said to hibernate. Could this have caused it? And i’ve done some research on Google. It says GRUBS looking for a file and can’t find it///// Well i hav’nt messed with any files anywhere on the hard drive with linux on it , nor have i messed with the root of my WinXP Hard Drive.

Specs:
> WINXP Dual Boot With Ubuntu
>512Mb RAM
> (The usual!)

NB: I’m using the Live CD to post this becauase I Cannot boot to WINXP OR LINUX!!!

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!
Hmmmm.. UPDATE!!!: In this LiveCD i’m trying to access the drive with linux on it. It goves back an error.
”
Cannot mount the volume
Unable to mount the volume
Details>
Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try dmesg | tail or so
”

(!!) Are these people aliens or summat?!!!!!!

1nce again – PLEASE HELPP!!

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Problem with Knoppix?

Posted on December 3, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

So I’m having to use a Knoppix Live cd to get into all the files on my unbootable computer….
but it won’t boot up all the way
it’s sitting here at the
Welcome to the KNOPPIX live GNU/Linux on CD!
page..
it’s gone through listing the Linux Kernel, through the memory available…
It scanned my USB device….
Enabled the DMA Acceleration for hda and hdc
It’s
Looking for CD in: /dev/hdc
and it’s just sitting there…
It’ll let me type stuff… but it won’t do anything else..
How do I continue???
EDIT: Ok so it just said
Can’t find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press rest button to quit.
Additional builtin commands avaliable:
cat
insmod
mount
rmmod
umount
lsmod

wow.. linux’s spelling sucks butt
EDIT2: it also says
knoppix#
and will let me type in one of the previously listed options

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