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Hello, thanks for all the replies. Meanwhile, I decided to backup my data and reformat the hdd to ext4 for easier handling in the future. Currently, I am transfering back my data from the backup....

Thanks. I know about CHKDSK, but I wanted a quick way to rewrite the bad sectors. CHKDSK checks the whole partition and it'd take ages for a 3TB hdd :-/ In Linux, I can use the technique described in...

I know how to smart-fix bad blocks on a Linux partition without reformatting the whole partition, but by specifically rewriting the sectors in question by calculating their position. I followed this...

Does anyone know how to install Syspeek in Ubuntu 13.04?

After upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04, the mouse settings are missing. Strangely, this problem only occurs with wireless mice. I tested this with various mice. When I plug in a wired mouse, the settings...

I have a problem in Ubuntu 12.10, 64-bit. I set my laptop's display to switch off after 10 minutes of inactivity. Now and then it happens that when I come back to my laptop and move the mouse to wake...

Hello,

I have a new a new wireless mouse, "ISY IMW 1100". I tried to adjust the speed in pointer settings. But even at lowest acceleration it's a tick too fast and actually hard to handle,...

GPT and MBR/DOS are different formats for the partition table. A partition table contains information about how you "arranged" or "parted" the physical space (partitions) of your storage device. In...

This might come in handy as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbook-oriented_Linux_distributions

I recommend EasyPeasy, it's Ubuntu-based.

Thanks a lot! Yes, it's a single partition, data only, no OS.

Thank you!

I have a new external 3tb hdd. I created a GPT partition table and formatted to ext4. When checking the properties of the partition it says 150,2GB used, so only 2,8TB are available. The partition is...

I have a new external 3TB hdd which I want to format in ext4. In 'Disks' I can choose to encrypt the hdd. 99.99% of the time I don't take my external hdd anywhere else than the next room. But I'd...

You may want to have a look at autokey:


sudo apt-get install autokey-gtk

Works like a charm. Thanks a lot! ):P

Didn't know about this. Wow, that's simple! However, it also saves the file paths. I'd like to get a list with only the file names.

How can I save a search result to a txt file? When I search in Nautilus, let's say for '.avi', I get a list with results. Can I save this list in a text file somehow?

What's the -i parameter for?

I'll give rsync a try:

rsync -av --progress '/path to/the source folder' '/path to/the destination folder'The -n option is also very useful, by the way. Nice to see what will be copied before...

In other words: If I don't boot from that drive, I don't need the MSR (at least as long as Microsoft doesn't make it mandatory in the future). So I could delete it. On the other hand, there's no...

I'd like to copy a folder with all subfolders/files in it from partition sdc1 to partition sdb1. File permissions do not have to be kept as I copy from an NTFS drive. Nautilus will do the job, of...

I used Windows to convert the drive to GPT. But now I see it created a "Microsoft Reserved" partition of 128MB at the beginning which seems totally useless as this drive is an external drive and...

I once had this problem because the power saving mode of the wifi card was enabled. You can try:


sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off

I guess it'd be best to address this in Handbrake's forum:
https://forum.handbrake.fr/

What graphics card do you have? If you have anything Intel related, this might help:
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-enable-intel-sna-acceleration-in.html

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