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Hello All-
I have a laptop that I can't install a hard drive in - a connector is broken of some sort.

All else works well & has a great battery life, so I am using a live usb with persistence...

Well that sucks.

The "ZERO" out option should have been surrounded by a warning- which a mod or the author of the post should now include.

You will not be able to recover that 640gb hd now- it...

Thanks to everyone's suggestions so far.

I guess I am puzzled as to why all recovery software fails to even detect the drive. It seems like I should be able to make a dd dump of the drive even if...

I can format the drive in "Disk Utility" but I don't want to- I want to save the files that are still on there using something like testdisk or ddrescue... but for whatever reason they refuse to work...

I have used testdisk successfully in the past- in this case though, just like ddrescue and gparted, testdisk simply doesn't "see" the drive.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is possible for recovery?

Before 11.10 users were asked for passwords when using update manager.
As of 11.10, update manager updates without authentication.

Under 11.10, I see an update, click ok, and the process gets...

Hi-

I have got this usb drive that has exhibited the following behavior a few times:

Format drive (different fs types, sometimes 1 sometimes more partitions)
use drive 3-5 times with no issues...

Sort of familiar-

I've ran "live" usb versions of fedora and ubuntu- and I was always a "default" user. I am glad you've got it working. When my pc has crashed, booting to live usb (or live usb's...

Sorry for your troubles.

I'm not sure what's happening here.

Try (from https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key):


"Raising Elephants" mnemonic device

A common...

Some old versions itunes worked with with wine- itunes 7 maybe- but the only solution that seems to make sense is to run a virtual machine (like virtualbox), install some old version of windows...

This post seems to address your issue, albeit on an earlier incarnation of Ubuntu:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610476

Here's the highlights:

I've been having this trouble too-

It had been working for me and then libimobiledevice failed to update.

I took these steps:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa
sudo apt-get update...

Sorry for your troubles.

What method did you use to install 11.04 to the pendrive?

-wigout

And another aptitude based removal command, probably to try and run first is:

sudo aptitude remove kubuntu-desktop

I have not been in your situation, but here's a link that describes what to do get back to a pure gnome ubuntu from kubuntu:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome

From ubuntu 11.04

sudo...

This link more generally outlines your options for using an iphone with ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone

it's psydm not psyadm sorry. I edited my original post.

Now that I read more carefully, I see that I gave you instructions for the opposite of what you are looking for- (copying from pc to iphone NOT iphone to pc).

Sorry,
wigout

I don't use banshee and I don't have an iphone.

Google lead me to look at the terms:
banshee iphone import

and I found this page (http://www.sythe.org/showthread.php?t=419355) which has a 16...

I can't translate the gid message for you. I'd like to hear that one myself.

Here's someone else who had that problem points to this thread as their solution:...

You have 2175 posts as I reply to this vs my 29 so... take my advice heaping spoonfuls of salt.

I searched for:
Ubuntu not "seeing" other NTFS partitions

and came across this older thread...

I have heaps of old drives laying around. I have copied and recopied old files from old installations of different windows machines and a couple of ubuntu machines.

I've been lucky to only...

my PATH looks about the same as yours, with more ad-hoc add-in paths at the end.

My conflict was with the ipkg-cl & update-alternatives there in the /usr/local/bin

I have fooled around with...

So, just one last thing before I mark this solved:
How do I fix my path problem noted in post number 20?

Thanks,
wigout