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Make free space into D: drive! Help please!?

Posted on July 24, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

Due to messing with Linux installations and partitions, I have deleted my D: partition.

My D: partition was on my computer when I bought it, and I thought it was another hard disk. Now, I accidentally deleted the partitions, and I have a 69 GB partition for Windows Vista, a 10 GB partition of WinRE, and about 220 GB of free space.

Since im such a beginner at partitions, I want to know how I can make that free space into a big D: partition, for storing movies and stuff, no OSes.

I booted a Linux Mint live cd, and went into the partitioner, Gparted or something. But there are several “modes” a can choose, including ext2, ext3, ext4, switch space, among others. Then theres the option of primary or secondary partition. What do I need to choose to get another partition just for storing data?
arou42, just to correct you… I didnt delete my WinRE partition. And I’ve downloaded a recovery cd anyways.

The rest: Thanks, ill try :D
one more thing, i remembered as I read through the answers.
I want to be able to see the D: partition from My Computer (Vista)
should I put the root directory thing to “/”?

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My computer crashed and I cant load windows…can someone help with a good Live OS (CD) and some options?

Posted on July 22, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

The other day my computer suddenly ran VERY sluggishly so I restarted it and it immediatly booted into the windows Checkdisk…ran through and said there was at least one problem but then windows loaded. Once windows loaded, I started getting pop-ups saying this couldnt load, that couldnt load….and I had to restart. Checkdisk ran again and this time a bunch of files I’ve never seen started being deleted…”M$01″ or something like that. Once about 50 files were deleted, it then started “restoring” 50 more “Orphan” files but before it finished, it said there was “insufficient disk space”. I have a 640GB Western Digital HD with only 100GB used on it so I had plenty of free space.

The next time it tried to load, it didn’t even make it to checkdisk, it said something along the lines of can not load windows, can not find file “c:windowssystem32configsystem”.

Soooooo…I spent 15 hours trying to use the windows restore disc and run the restore option through the dos prompt and when trying to reload an old restore point, it kept telling me the information was invalid. I then tried to get a LiveOS (Knoppix and also MEPIS linux LIVE OS CD’s) but knoppix wouldnt even load and MEPIS had about 15 errors but would eventually load. I could get into MEPIS but not see my C drive or D drive. (although it did show C drive but did not show how much space there was or anything else…and the only option I had was to “mount” the hard drive.) I did not try mounting the drive because I am afraid I would erase the information I am trying to recover.

I have a second hard drive running now with XP home (SATA) and the old hard drive with the information I want is disconnected because it too is a SATA drive and my CD rom is a SATA and I only have 2 SATA connections on my MB.

Can anyone help!?!? I really need the pictures off my old disk as they are all of the pictures of my 9 month old child and I’d hate to lose them. I tried calling a “professional” service but he didn’t even know about a LIVE OS cd so I am skeptical to spend $300 for them to say it’s fried. I am looking for software of some idea of how to get my information back and then I will re-format the drive. Thanks and I know it’s a long post but I would really appreciate any input.

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Do I need hard disk space for linux live cd?

Posted on July 14, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

Do I need extra hard disk space for installing linux’
s ubuntu if I use it as a live cd?I have no more partition space left on my current hard disk :(

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Burning ISOs to storage discs?

Posted on July 5, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I would like to dual boot Linux slackware and Windows XP I have a 4 gig disc but its used as a removable space storage
can I burn a ISO to it or find a download somewhere that has all the system files I need to make a live cd?

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How bad is it? (computer drive problem)?

Posted on July 3, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

ok, I have two computers, the first one is old. around 64 MB hard drive space 124MB RAM and 800MHz processor speed. The second one is newer: about 130MB hard drive space 512MB RAM 3GHz processor speed. I was on the second one on a linux live cd and I accidental set a storage partition as the active partition, so my computer stopped booting and I couldn’t configure anything or run a live cd, basically I couldn’t access my hard drive. So I removed the hard drive and replaced it with the old hard drive (the 64MB one) I still can’t boot but I can access the hard drive through a linux live cd. I also tried attaching both, the old one as the master, the newer one (the original one) as the slave so I could fix the newer one, but it didn’t work. So I removed both and put in the old one (as mentioned before) so I can’t boot but I can access my hard drive and install linux (I dont have the windows install disk) I haven’t installed it yet though.
Is my second (newer) hd fixable?

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