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January 22nd, 2010, 11:43 AM
hey guys I just finished writing this blog post , do you think I have included all the cool necessary applications ? help me adding more useful stuff (sorry for my bad english)
Nessecary Tools for Booting Issues on ubuntu and windows , Bootloader, Grub , MBR (http://blog.shevin.info/2010/01/nessecary-tools-for-booting-issues-on.html)
here is the full text , links wont be copied here .
Sorry guys that I dont update that much, I am stuck with my university in Iran, it is funny I fail my courses with bad scores and those guys who dont know a thing about comptuer get best scores okay enough nagging let read my newest article !
Having Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows Seven , ubuntu 8.04 and ubuntu 9.10 on two hard disks , has made me an expertise in facing all kind of problem with Dual booting (I guess I should say Quad booting) .
I had written an article about grub three years ago and I still receive emails saying "Thank you that saved my ***".
here I want to introduce some links and applications to save more ***** ;)
Warning : these list items are not steps , don't do them blindly one after another, these are seprate solutions for seprate problems .
* First of all Grub 2 Tutorial on the forum is a great reference for all !
* if you deleted one of your partitions and the partition table became invalid then try
TestDisk
* it is always a good idea to see a list of your partitions in ubuntu (you can always boot from an Ubuntu live CD)
sudo fdisk -l
in the results you can see the bootable partition is marked with a * and you an see their official name (the name that computer knows them by)
for i.e :
/dev/sdb2 * 5043 9562 36306900 7 HPFS/NTFS
that tells me sdb2 (the second partion of my B hard disk is bootable and its filesystem is NTFS) and its address is /dev/sdb2
* if you deleted your Windows bootloader . (in my case I deleted the first partition of windows hard disk) and windows MBR was gone, you can restore it using an Ubuntu live CD
sudo apt-get install lilo
sudo lilo -M /dev/sda mbr
Replace sda with your hard disk ,for i.e if want to restore the windows MBR of your second hard disk it would be :
sudo lilo -M /dev/sdb mbr
*
Partition Magic 8.1 Bootable CD is available on torrents , you can search and download if it is legal in your country . (I can't give you a direct link but you can search in Torrentz )
* Gparted Live CD is an open source clone of Partition magic .
* SystemRescueCD is a great linux Live CD , that does tons of things , from partion-ing to cloning and repairing more !
* there are Russian windows live CDs that are useful , find them on torrentz at your own legal risk (becareful they are fake virus ones too)
* to make your grub menu beautiful , you can always try Start up Manager
for ubuntu
Nessecary Tools for Booting Issues on ubuntu and windows , Bootloader, Grub , MBR (http://blog.shevin.info/2010/01/nessecary-tools-for-booting-issues-on.html)
here is the full text , links wont be copied here .
Sorry guys that I dont update that much, I am stuck with my university in Iran, it is funny I fail my courses with bad scores and those guys who dont know a thing about comptuer get best scores okay enough nagging let read my newest article !
Having Windows Xp, Windows Vista, Windows Seven , ubuntu 8.04 and ubuntu 9.10 on two hard disks , has made me an expertise in facing all kind of problem with Dual booting (I guess I should say Quad booting) .
I had written an article about grub three years ago and I still receive emails saying "Thank you that saved my ***".
here I want to introduce some links and applications to save more ***** ;)
Warning : these list items are not steps , don't do them blindly one after another, these are seprate solutions for seprate problems .
* First of all Grub 2 Tutorial on the forum is a great reference for all !
* if you deleted one of your partitions and the partition table became invalid then try
TestDisk
* it is always a good idea to see a list of your partitions in ubuntu (you can always boot from an Ubuntu live CD)
sudo fdisk -l
in the results you can see the bootable partition is marked with a * and you an see their official name (the name that computer knows them by)
for i.e :
/dev/sdb2 * 5043 9562 36306900 7 HPFS/NTFS
that tells me sdb2 (the second partion of my B hard disk is bootable and its filesystem is NTFS) and its address is /dev/sdb2
* if you deleted your Windows bootloader . (in my case I deleted the first partition of windows hard disk) and windows MBR was gone, you can restore it using an Ubuntu live CD
sudo apt-get install lilo
sudo lilo -M /dev/sda mbr
Replace sda with your hard disk ,for i.e if want to restore the windows MBR of your second hard disk it would be :
sudo lilo -M /dev/sdb mbr
*
Partition Magic 8.1 Bootable CD is available on torrents , you can search and download if it is legal in your country . (I can't give you a direct link but you can search in Torrentz )
* Gparted Live CD is an open source clone of Partition magic .
* SystemRescueCD is a great linux Live CD , that does tons of things , from partion-ing to cloning and repairing more !
* there are Russian windows live CDs that are useful , find them on torrentz at your own legal risk (becareful they are fake virus ones too)
* to make your grub menu beautiful , you can always try Start up Manager
for ubuntu