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Following a suggestion made before, I'm trying to use UNetbootin to install Damn Small Linux on a Windows computer.
I'd like to reformat the entire HD and install Linux on it. I installed UNetbootin on Windows, set it for a frugal install on the HD, rebooted, started it up in UNetbootin. It seemed…
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Hi, I tried to format my harddisk (160 GB) with the following command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
After some 3 hours, following error came up:
dd: writing to '/dev/sda' : No space left on device
312581809+0 records in
312581808+0 records out
160041885696 bytes (160 GB) copied, 10708…
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I am storing most of my music on an external hard disk and from time to time I need to unplug this disk. After reconnecting it to my computer and starting iTunes I noticed that the individual songs stored on the external drive are now lost (they have a little exclamation mark next to them). iTunes…
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Does anybody know a good software tool to scan and repair sectors on harddisks (an alternative to the standard that is included with windows e.g. scandisk/chkdsk)?
I know already about all emergency/ultimate boot cd's, I am looking for a tool that is not on one of the boot-cd's.
Thank you,
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Any issue with that?
I recently setup ubunutu virtual machine on my external harddisk.
Once i accidentally removed the external harddisk usb connection then when i try to startup the ubuntu virtual machine again i get kernel panic.
I thinking of writing a cron script to backup everyday to another…
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