General :: Protect Hard Disk Data From A Live Cd?
Aug 9, 2010Risk to native OS from Live CD?
when booted from linux live cd, all partitions of hard disk become accessible without any restriction. How to block this?
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General :: Compress And Backup Data In Hard Disk
Apr 30, 2011My hard disk is failing and I amnot able to boot into the system! Currently I have logged into the system uing Live CD! Any way to compress and back up the data in my hard disk in an efficient way!
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Jan 26, 2010Is it possible to mount a 2nd hard disk without erasing the data that is already on it? If so, what command must I enter. The system recognizes that the disk is there, I just can't access the data because it hasn't been mounted.
View 5 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Retrieve Windows Data From Hard Disk
Sep 29, 2010I have 2 hard disks and all together I created 6 partion in it.On primary I installed Windows XP and REST 5 partions were having data.From Second hard disk ,I copied all the first partion data to another partions and installed Red Hat 7.It took only 3 GB all togethr for Linux Distribution.Now I need to fetch my Windows data back.I logged from the Windows XP disk and I could see the second disk through disk managemnt .But it was showing "Unhelathy".But I will not be able to retrive the data.So can Anyone give soln for this.
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Hard Disk Data Transfer Accessing Error
Jun 28, 2010I am using an embedded platform in which I have connected an external harddisk (/dev/sda). The SCSI driver is present and I am using the SG_IO interface for performing the SMART commands with the Hard Disk. (Unfortunately not all the HDIO ioclts are present. So I opted for the SG_IO ioctl). But the data transfer (reading/write data from/to sector) is not working with the SG_IO ioctls. So I searched for some other options. Later in one of the places, I found that we can actually mount the /dev/sda to some mount point in /mnt and then make a XFS file system (mkfs.xfs) of this.
And then we can create the directories and do file operations on this mounted directory. Here the simple read/write systems calls can be used for this. I was thinking about this implementation. But I am confused how I can map the actual LBA (Logical Block Address) to the device file offset. I mean if I want to write to the sector 5, there will be a LBA for it. So I can do lseek on my device and then write the data there. So how the mapping between LBA and device file offset can be calculated.
General :: Way To Re-install Grub On Master Boot Record Of Hard Disk Using Live CD?
Nov 29, 2010Is there a way to re-install grub on the master boot record of a hard disk using a live cd?If so will i have to configure it?I'm trying to install a linux distro on my ao751h(with poulsbo ) but i after installing it i can't boot.I get an error 15 or a flashing underscore.I have already tried ubuntu,debian,mint and slackware(LILO isn't compatible with poulsbo).Also,does anybody experience problems with the ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 installers or is it only me?when i choose the language and keyboard settings the installation stop as it is and i get a crash report.
View 4 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Damaged Hard Disk Doesn't Pass SMART Test, And , Won't Boot With It Connected, Even From A Live CD?
Sep 19, 2010Its basically an old SATA Hard Drive with a Windows XP partition I was trying to sell.When my computer does the BIOS checks, it doesn't pass the SMART test (but I can boot it anyway), although I can't boot Linux in any way with this Hard Disk connected (I even tried Live CD distros, like Parted Magic).I can boot the XP partition from inside the disk, although I guess its pretty close to not being able to. Is there any way to "fix" this Hard Drive?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Recovering Data - This Directory Has Been Unmounted To Protect Your Data
Jun 3, 2010Ubuntu 9.10 64bit. Acer Laptop
Using ubuntu 9.10 cd to access laptops hard drive.
foun readme file in /media/disk/mark
opened with openoffice. THIS DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UNMOUNTED TO PROTECT YOUR DATA.
From the graphical desktop, click on: "Access Your Private Data"
or
From the command line, run: $ ecryptfs-mount-private
So I tried a couple of ways...
General :: Changing GRUB From An External Hard Disk To The Internal Hard Disk?
May 14, 2010I had a dual boot (windows 7 + debian), both of them installed in my internal hard disk, with the GRUB in it. I have recently installed a second linux distro (mint), but I put it in an external hard disk. Now the GRUB allows me to boot any of the three operating systems, but I need the external disk to do it. It seems that after the mint installation the GRUB is now working from the external disk (if the external disk is not connected, the machine does not boot.) �Is there a way to change the location of the GRUB, to the internal hard disk of my laptop?
View 2 Replies View RelatedFedora :: Hard Disk Data Form?
Jul 1, 2010When we copy a sector to a file like using dd command, the data in the file is of which format? and of which type of conversion is nesessary to see the data in read able formate. i have tryed the ASCII conversion in dd command but still the data is in un-readable format. and also tell that if i access hard disk sector's data using c language program and copy data to a file then which type of conversion should i do ?
View 7 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Transferring Data From Hard Disk?
May 30, 2011I was dual booting Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista on a Acer Aspire 5920. My laptop went for service and the company said they will give me a fresh laptop instead of the one I am using now for they cannot set it right.
When I plugged in my hard disk through an external cable onto a windows machine it detected only the data present (which is almost negligible in my case) in the vista partition. I would like to transfer all the data I have from hard disk at least the one in the Ubuntu 8.10 to my new laptop on which I plan to run Ubuntu. Can someone guide me on how to go about doing it? Also is it possible to transfer all the installed softwares so that they start running in the new laptop without any extra effort?
Ubuntu :: Hard Disk Backup Using Live CD?
Jun 8, 2010I'm using a dell XPS M1530 laptop with windows vista and ubuntu 10.04. Last week when I turned on my laptop I got an error saying internal hard disk not found. When I called dell support, I have been told that my hard disk is dead. I have few important stuffs in my hard disk for which I don't have any back. So I tried using ubuntu live CD to back up my data as in the link below.[URL]..I'm using ubuntu 10.04 live CD(64 bit). When I go to my places after booting from the live CD I can't see any partition showing my hard disk. I can see "Computer". When I go in it I can only see "File System" and nothing related to my partitions in my HDD. What should I do now? Do I need to mount my hard disk or is my HDD completely dead?
View 4 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Partition Hard Disk From Live CD
Sep 28, 2010When I installed Lucid several months ago, I went ahead and let Ubuntu use the entire disk. Since then I have learned more about partitions and came to realize that I didn't have a separate /home partition, meaning that clean installs of new Ubuntu releases would wipe my data. I would like to carve my hard drive up from the LiveCD environment while preserving my current data and Lucid installation.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHardware :: Recovering Data From A Fried Hard Disk
Jul 16, 2010I learned a couple of days ago why you should do regular backups. Left my laptop working for the day in hot weather. When I came back it had crashed. On reboot it no longer booted up. I could still access the BIOS and boot from alternative media but not from the hard drive. The laptop tried to access the hard disk for a couple of minutes (hard drive light was blinking) and then failed. I made an ubuntu live usb stick and am currently working from there, trying to access my hard drive so I could image my data on another disk before sending the laptop for repairs. All my data is on that disk including my passwords and the password for this site conveniently so I had to register a new account to post this thread.
The laptop is IBM Thinkpad X41. The hard drive is accessed during when boot options are presented, again when the live cd boots up and determines the hardware available and also when manually probing for hard disks using the script below. The hard disk however does not show up in dev. If I could get so far to get it there, I could use dd_rescue to image it away. My hope lies in that the drive still spins up and is accessed producing error messages, however indicating that the system still knows it exists. Excerpt from dmesg concerning the drive:
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Fedora Installation :: How To Install KDE From Hard Disk Using Live CD
Jul 11, 2010I downloaded Fedora-13-i686-Live-KDE.iso. Is there any way to install it from hard disk?
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Feb 15, 2011Is it possible to install the fedora 14 live to the hard disk and how?
View 7 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Access Hard Disk Files From Live CD?
May 8, 2010i'm having some problems booting ubuntu 9.10 and i just want to backup my files and install it all over again.I want to access my old files from the ubuntu Live CD, because no kernel is working.Is there a way?. Just in case, i don't have partitions, so i don't have a 'home' one (but i'm going to
View 5 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: How To Make Live CD / DVD From Hard Disk Installation
Jul 28, 2010I have a Fedora 11 Installed in my machine with customized packages and scripts. Now I want to create an ISO/Image of that installed FC11, so it can be used to install in multiple machines.
View 3 Replies View RelatedFedora :: Hard Disk Data Recovery Of Ext2 And Ext3
Jul 1, 2010I am student of MCS and working on final project. I am the user of windows xp. I am new in Linux. I am working on a project that titles "Hard disk data Recovery of ext2 and ext3 in linux". In windows, including dos.h and bios.h header files in program of c language I can send interrupt to bios and access most of the devices like parallel port, hard disks etc. But problem is that there is no bios.h and dos.h files in gcc. Now how can I access my hard drive using c program. How can I call int13h interrupt in linux or there is any other function in the linux to access the hard disk. In fact I want to access sectors of my hard disk using c language program. How can I do it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Partition Second Hard Disk For Use As Backup Data
Sep 29, 2010My primary drive is 250GB and has the root, home and var (I'd read it's good to put var on a separate partition for MythTV which I'm planning on doing) on separate partitions. I have a second 1TB drive that I'll be using to backup the 250GB drive and also host less critical data. I've created two partitions on this drive, one 250GB and the other covering the rest of the drive. I'd like to move the Videos directory out of Home on the 250GB onto the 1TB drive but can't find a definitive way of doing this. Should I just follow this guide for moving the home folder to a new partition? Next question is when performing a backup of the 250GB drive how do I make sure it's going to the 250GB partition on the 1TB drive? Can the different partitions be mounted separately?
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Servers :: Hard Disk Filling Up \ Mount /var/log/data To New HDD?
Mar 16, 2011I have a directory /var/log/data its about 80 GB,It filling up quit rapidly.I don't have much space left in the system them So i will attaching another External HDD.My question is that i need to mount /var/log/data to new HDD.So i have old data and pulse new coming up.I don't want to copy data from /var/log/data then mount new HDD to /var/log/data you know what i am taking about is there a simple way like linking or any other.
View 4 Replies View RelatedRed Hat / Fedora :: Retrieve Data From Hard Disk After Installation On The System?
Aug 17, 2009I have never used Linux before and know nothing about it . But my cousin installed a Fedoro linux CD on my laptop which previously had Lotus symphony . Unfortunately my laptop had single partition and so Linux overrode the old OS ,ie lotus symphony .
I have some critical data on my hard disk but I have no clue how to take backup this data using Linux . I desparately need this data .
Could somebody let me know how I can access this data and take the backup ?
Hardware :: Scan And Fix Bad Sectors On Hard Disk Without Damaging Data?
Dec 19, 2010How to scan and fix Bad Sectors on Hard Disk without damaging data?
View 5 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Access Hard Disk Files From Live CD
May 8, 2010I'm having some problems booting ubuntu 9.10 and I just want to backup my files and install it all over again. I want to access my old files from the ubuntu Live CD, because no kernel is working. Is there a way?. Just in case, I don't have partitions, so I don't have a 'home' one (but I'm going to).
View 1 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: Grub (Hard Disk Error) How To Rectify From Live CD
Jan 29, 2010I've a dual installation, ubuntu and XP and I've suddenly got a problem when I boot it gives the error "GRUB: Hard Disk Error", Tried to boot from Ubuntu live CD but I don't know how to correct grub from there. How can I correct the problem, maybe which live disk is better to correct such errors?
Consulted similar threads but couldn't find a solution for my problem as I'm booting from livecd and others were giving solution as if one can directly access the installation on hard disk, but whenever I try with ubuntu livecd it access live installation.
Fedora :: 13 Windows 7 Dualboot And Hard Disk - Complete Loss Of All My Data
Oct 11, 2010Last time I installed Ubuntu in a dualboot configuration with Win7 on one of my machines, my entire boot sector and Windows install got corrupted, resulting in a complete loss of all my data and requiring a fresh install of Windows.
I looked into this a bit after the fact, and it seemed to me it was due to conflicting hard disk geometry between Linux and Windows.
My question is, how likely is this to happen with Fedora? Is this because of Ubuntu? A bad install? Is there someway I can avoid this from happening when I install Fedora if it will happen?
OpenSUSE Install :: Ubuntu In Dualboot Without Losing Any Data On Hard Disk?
Jul 2, 2010How to install openSUSE with Ubuntu in dualboot? I have Ubuntu 10.04 and i want to install openSUSE 11.2 without losing any data on hard disk.
View 4 Replies View RelatedDebian Installation :: Get Grub2 To Boot A Live System From Hard Disk
May 8, 2011I have been frustrated attempting to get Grub2 to boot a Debian Live system from hard disk. Have set aside a 4gb partition /dev/sda1 to contain the Debian Live and some other recovery tools. I actually have them all working from a 4gb USB stick successfully, but getting it to work on my HDD has proved challenging. On USB, I have PartedMagic, Gparted, Grml, and of course my standard 6.01 Squeeze. I have also managed to get the Debian Live booting from that USB stick. Very slick.
However, I can NOT get Debian Live to boot from my HDD; altho all of the others above boot fine. Have tried it two ways - one using an iSO image, which is how it is done on my USB stick. The other attempt is to copy the entire contents of the ISO to a directory.
Here are my directory structures:
debian_live_gnome_squeeze_i386- contains the following: debian-live-6.0.1-i386-gnome-desktop.iso initrd.gz initrd.img vmlinuz which is how it is laid out on my USB stick debian_live - contains the files from the ISO image The error I get is something like "panic unable to find live filesystem" My grub.cfg snippet for the two methods I have tried - the 2nd menuentry is similar to how it works on the USB stick.
menuentry "Debian 6.01 Live (on /dev/sda1)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,msdos1)
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Probly don't really need to get it working since PartedMagic can do almost everything I need for recovery and I can use the USB for reinstall or whatever else.
General :: Use Hard Disk Image Like A Regular Hard Disk?
Apr 6, 2010If you have a hard disk image (including partition table, multiple partitions,...), is it possible to let Linux treat it as a regular hard disk?
By "regular hard disk" I mean I would like to have the image show up as, for instance, /dev/hdx and its partitions as /dev/hdx1,...
(I know I can mount one of the partitions in the image using "mount -o loop,offset=x ..." but I don't really like this option.)
