First how can I clean install Ubuntu 10.10? I am currently using Windows 7 and want to clean install Ubuntu 10.10.
Secondly, I have Apple iPod Touch 4th generation 32GB model. So how can I install iTunes on Ubuntu??
installing Ubuntu. I want to completely delete my windows data and want to clean install Ubuntu 10.10
How do I completely delete the Windows partion using GParted in Ubuntu? I heard that the boot option for Windows still shows even after deleting the partition using GParted
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running it on a Toshiba Satellite laptop.After getting the OS installed and configured evolution, I did a backup of the evolution on my desktop version of 10.04 and attempted to restore it to evolution on my laptop and while it did seem to work, it became corrupted and now won't load.
I uninstalled multiple times and reinstalled to get the same problem. I also removed a number of folders trying to get a clean install but ran into the same problem as soon as restored again.How can I completely remove evolution so that I can get a truly clean install where the wizard comes up for set up again once I open it for the first time?
drive E: still is running windows. How can I completely delete windows from my computer?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have just upgraded my lenny box to squeeze. I did it by clean-installing squeeze. The installation was successful, but I just noticed that I had forgotten to backup some important files I had on this machine before the installation...
Now, is there any way to recover those files?
I just install Ubuntu on a new computer I got, and set up LAMP. I started poking around in MySQL (more than I should have) and managed to break it. I've been trying to fix it, but I can't. I've done apt-get --purge mysql-client, but when I reinstall it it's the same thing. How can I reinstall MySQL (and PHPmyadmin) from a completely clean slate? (There's no important data on there)
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had Windows. Installed Linux 10.04 over it. I want to switch back to Windows. When I pop in my Windows XP disc I get and error after it loads a bunch of stuff. I tried booting from m 10.04 disc, going into Disk Utility and changing the file system to NTFS no luck. Tried burning another copy of XP and still same error. Now I burned a copy of Windows 7(desperate times call for desperate measures) but its on a DVD-R instead of a CD-R and every time I try to boot it, Linux just boots.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI recently did a fresh install of ubuntu 11.04 and seemed to have made a mistake with re-partitioning perhaps? I cant boot into windows anymore. I know all files are still there and intacct as I can access them from Ubuntu, but Something is wrong with the Booting of Windows now. I get to a screen which gives me system recovery options. When I perform the startup repair it scans for a few secnds and comes up with an error message "...System volume on disk is corrupt. Repair action: File system repair (chkdsk)...error code 0x1f" I even seems to have access to files on windows from this screen when I try a "Windows Complete system restore" It gives me the option to look on the hard drive or on a disk (I only have a Toshiba windows 7 upgrade disk and it doesnt seem to be helping)
View 9 Replies View RelatedA couple of months ago I decided to use the wubi installer to install ubuntu on my comp in a dual boot configuration. Yesterday, I clean installed my windows drive with windows 7.I have my windows install on drive C: and my wubi install in Drive D: ( they are on completely different hard disks ), so the ubuntu virtual disks are still intact and the wubildr.mbr is still there.
The bootloader screen at startup doesn't appear at all! I tried to manually boot into the D: hard drive but come up with a error 17 grub loading error, which was because the grub loader doesn't recognize the file system on the drive (ntfs). is there a way to somehow recover the wubi installation?
EDIT: I did some research on the net, apparently if I backup up the root.disk file, erase everything else on the drive, install wubi again and overwrite the root.disk file with the backed up one I should be able to restore my previous ubuntu installation! However, I don't want try something until I'm certain that it would work.
I configured cron to clean my /tmp directory, should I also add other locations to clean and especially /var/tmp.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am printing from an Acer to an HP. I can't completely delete the queue and now can't print anything.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm looking to make a script that will do the following;
yum update -y
cd /home
wget [URL]
sh latest
(install various scripts like ConfigServer series, ClamAV)
edit settings in files
delete any downloaded archives (clean up)
reboot/delete self
What will be an easy and reliable way to completely erase a hard drive excluding with a hammer.I have several 40G IDE Hard drives, running Linux or Windows, for disposal. A friend of mine needs them. I want completely erase all data before delivering them to him. Googling "How to completely erase a hard drive" brought me many suggestion.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy filesystem (software RAID 0):
Filesystem...... Size....... Used....... Avail....... Use%....... Mounted on
/dev/md1........ 9.7G....... 2.8G....... 6.5G....... 31%....... /
[code]....
As i said in title, we need to erase all datas from harddisk before distroy our old servers.
Quote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M
Quote:
shred -fzuv -n 100 /dev/hda
1. Which is the best practice to erase data, dd or shred?
2. How can i execute these commands in running server, do i need to re-boot the servers as RESCUE mode using bootable cd?
time using OpenSUSE.When I mounted an ntfs drive, I did it 2 times, and create 2 different folders in root/windows (C and E).Is there anyway to remove 1 of them?
View 6 Replies View RelatedAfter having successfully downloaded and burned 11.3 ISO to DVD, i'm off to doing dangerous things: trying to install this on my work laptop which has Win XP SP3. when the partitioning stuff comes up, it suggests deleting the windows partition.
i have tried various options in terms of editing/resizing existing partitions and have always gotten errors. Just want to confirm: if I delete the windows partition, i'll lose my Win XP and all the data i have. Is that right?
My desktop computer has 2 hardrives, one 70gb and one 40gb, previously, the 40gb was windows XP and the 70gb was a backup, I decided to install opensuse on the 70gb backup, and now I want to wipe out the 40gb HDD that has windows xp and turn that into a back up.
View 9 Replies View RelatedFor several days I have tried to create a new raid5 array, after accidently blowing up the old one.But it seems that the raid data was burned into the harddisks ineradicably. I keep seeing the raid data that was used for the old array. I have tried everything to remove the old data, even installed a new distro but still I see the old data.My last hope is to erase the disks with a lowlevel tool to make a clean start.
View 4 Replies View RelatedA friend accidentally did mkfs.vfat on my 1Tb ext. hard drive..It's now showing as 400 GB free where it was 10 GB previously and the remaining data is being shown as weird symbols and empty folders and yet it occupies more than 500GB..Any way to recover the data completely?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI dont want to wipe the whole drive, and i don't want to delete only particular files. I want to completely destroy all data in free space.I've found some articles about secure-delete package for linux that would allow erasing freespace with the command 'sfill,' but I can't find it in the repositories nor through google. This would be ideal but it seems maybe it's debian only.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 in a desktop computer with three disks. SDA with NTFS in SDA1, where I have Windows XP, SDB where I had Ubuntu 10.04, and SDC where I have an NTFS partition. I want to install Ubuntu 10.10 in SDB without loosing the data in SDA and SDC. When I try to install it, when I choose specify manual partition, I only find this: Where is SDB abd SDC? What do I choose in Device for Boot Loader Installation?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried to clone my laptop ubuntu partition (9.10) using ddrescue into my portable harddisk.I run command "ddrescue r3 /dev/sda6 /dev/sdb6" sdb6 is my portable harddisk partition with lots of data. In my head I was thinking that it will create image file (like iso or img)that can be restored to another disk.Suddenly I relize that it delete my existing data (in sdb6) then I interrupted ddrescue.Is there a way that I could get back my data in sdb6?Partition in sdb6 is FAT32m, now when I try to open sdb6 using Windows OS, it always aks me to format
View 6 Replies View RelatedIs there a GUI solution to permanently destroying data on my external HD? I know there are some command line options but I am looking for a GUI solution.
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there an actual How-To or something like it about sharing data between linux system(s) and MS Windows XP?I do not think there is a golden path but maybe a list of possibilities and their pros and contras would be fine. As I understood there are different ways of sharing data (and so of setting the partitions)
1. Accessing the data of a MS Windows (NTFS) partition from a linux system (contra: possible data loss/data corruption?).
2. Accessing the data of a linux (ext3) partition form a Microsoft system (XP) (contra: possible data loss/data corruption?).
3. Sharing a data partition (FAT ?) (contra: problems with large files).
4. Visualization (contra1: If the main system gets broken, the guest is broken, too?; contra2: not so easy?; contra3: windows male ware in linux?).
I am thinking about reorganizing my hole system of sharing data and of partitions (including my NTFS partition for XP data and FAT partition for data shared with XP and linux).Now I am using mostly a FAT partition for sharing data but this seems to me not the way (for big files and especially because of data security).
I thought of making my /home partition bigger and use a windows program to get excess to ext3/ext4 from MS XP. I also thought of deleting my hole NTFS data partition and use only /home with document-folders etc. for each user / for the linux users and for the Mircosoft users. But this seems not so wise jet from I have read (at least not with an ext4 data partition):
[all variants] ext4 support on Windows XP - Ubuntu Forums
Ext2read - View ext2/3/4 partitions from Windows
I've got Debian Lenny on dual boot with windows. My windows shows up a OS in computer, if I try to open or mount I get "nvalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume 'OS'." I've tried to install some NTSF programes from apt-get but none help.Can I install something that will allow me to access data on the windows drive? As I'd like to access some files.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi've been using php/fwrite to add text to a file using the below code but how do i remove text from a file? note that i don't know what line it's on as there will be other content in the file.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm confused about "hard link" feature. I've been learning from my UNIX Academy DVDs training that hard links to a file can be many and each of them is an effective filename for the associated data. So let assume that we have some very sensitive data in a file and we want it to be deleted and file has 20 links. I "delete" a file, but in fact I deleted only one "name" of it. My understanding from the training that data is still there until we delete the last associated hard link. But how can I find the names of all of them? If we have the names, they can be removed one by one. Or may be there's command that can trace all the "names" and remove them at once?
View 14 Replies View RelatedMy Ubuntu partition is just about out of memory, and I need to do some cleaning of the windows.I couldn't find a lot on here (maybe I wasn't using the right terms), and when I looked on google it seemed like the only results I found were from people that wanted to remove linux from windows.What I'd like to do is create a very, very small partition for windows for when I need it (burning MP3s to CDA and my printer only).I wouldn't mind re-installing windows and starting from scratch (I have all my software backed up) and then installing Ubuntu a backed up version of Ubuntu. Except I can't get Clonezilla to install for the life of me after several attempts.So is their any (hopefully easy) way to clean up windows without going to extremes?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi currently have both xubuntu 10.10 32-bit and windows 7 64-bit installed on my laptop which i use mostly for college work and basic programming (i'm still learning to program).i have a 150gb partition with win7 installed, a 20gb partition with xubuntu installed and a 15gb partition with my linux home folder on, the rest of the space is unused because i thought i may need it for something else in the future.the home folder partition is formatted to etc4, i now have a need to access this data from win7 for college work, i know that windows doesn't support mounting of etc file systems so i have hit a problem.
i thought about changing the type of partition from a ect4 to fat32 but will this delete my data? or ,are there any third party software packages for windows that will allow me to mount ect4?