h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

bought it, it had better do what it says on the box. Not like Gparted where you have to use the command line with
ntfsresise -bs20480000 M

but no clear idea where the thing is going to end up then have to be absolutely accurate with partitioning in gParted which don't even know if the disc is ok and when you partition to say 512MB like I have it comes out as 509MB or 510MB but that's no good.

I noticed my cpu speed in openSUSE was 1.15Ghz which is the standard setting but mine is set to 1.2Ghz. How did that happen because standard settings for voltage are 1.5v or 0.3 volts higher than specification.

The fixed sector was at 198942386 which puts it between 94 and 95 Gig so what if I just leave that space unallocated.

I just thought; the thing causing windows to report an error might be the result of a virus, or maybe they just don't know how to report fixed because the bad sector table has one entry in it forcing a jump to its replacement.

I have been watching this Conficker thing and one expert thinks it's intended to attack macs, but I read this:

"The story goes on to describe how the researchers traced the botnet back to Mac users who had installed pirated copies of Apple's iWork 2009 software. Back in January, many tech outlets wrote about a Trojan that was being distributed with copies of iWork 2009, that was available on Bittorrent and other file-sharing services."

I actually got 11 virus's yesterday, p2p generic apparently from email, possibly cleaned although they were found in System-volume-information\restore.

Today I got an overvoltage warning on the cpu to 1.33V, I set it to warn over 1.25V and wonder if the got me.

It is imperative I backup everything including partition tables and there is a lot of $_hit software out there and don't think £20 is too much too pay for something that is guaranteed to restore everything, while I don't know if the free stuff really works.

The sort of thing I mean is the image I have is made by a reviewed application where somebody said they only had a problems a couple of times.

Gparted is known to make false readings of the state of the disc, and worse has a warning for HP users about destruction of graphics cards, and it would be silly for me to trust this application for the sake of a few bob.

Gparted is a GUI for ntfsresize which is also used in linus installation discs, so I can't use these for resizing either.

From the command line ntfsresize -bs20480000 M actually might resize to 20480000 bytes, and this is another good reason not to use it.

The -b manipulator might tell it to ignore bad sector tables necessitating manual rewriting. Another good reason not to use it.

By gum this is a long one.

Can I reiterate my advice form a few months back...

Get your new machine working and stop tweaking it. If you feel the compulsion to tweak and optimise something, do it to your old machine.

Look at this little beauty:

http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=8287

Will be great when I upgrade to 45nm.

I've got a whole box of liquid cooling stuff out in my hall. I inherited it when it proved too noisy for a friend to live with...

Imagine the rumble of your freezer, just going on all the time. The newer stuff might be quieter, but it'll still likely be noisier than air-cooling.

Operation success I now have a 30GB windows partion, and it even updated the windows bad sector file, so now I don't have any bad sectors.

That's the hard stuff!

Can I move the program files into an extended partition.?

I Paragon

"Can I move the program files into an extended partition.?"

Not without a helluva lot of patience and registry editing. It took me two days to move all the important folders over to the "D" drive on a Windows 2000 machine, and I had a fair idea of what I was going to do before I started.

I wouldn't recommend it.

There is thousands of them and you have to do all the paths manually.

Oh well I will just have to install new ones in E.

It seemed ok at the time; I have:

(C:primary 30GB---ntfs)(E logical 170GB--ntfs)(swap 1GB)(-root primary 9GB ext3--)(home extended 10GB)--(fat32-140GB primary)

Only the first two at the moment though. Takes a long time this.

I've moved the video programs to E since these make up to 12GB cache's, hopefully they will make them in E.

Only one application doesn't work; Power Director which I used for turning video into HD, I figure that probably needs to be on C:

If you have the original disc, reinstall it but this time change all the paths from C: to E:...

Linux wrecked my pc, some grub got into windows and loaded only a black screen, then I tried the rescue disk and it wouldn't boot.

I had to open my pc and remove the battery and jump into default then reset everything.

Got into the rescue and did Mbrfix but didn't work. So used the Paragon rescue disk and tried to restore. It said 25 hours to go, but after 12 hours it crashed.

Got to do it all manually so I can ask for my money back.

No DTV no email

"Linux wrecked my pc"

No, *you* wrecked your PC, using Linux. Stop fiddling.

Installing Linux; 78GB unused space not good enough, so had to make it bigger, installed fine choose to put grub in sda4 linux boot, restart lovely openSuse graphic on bootup, choose windows and reboot, NOTHING but grub command line.

How can that be my fault.

My keyboard: the " key is where the @ key should be and vice versa. How do I put that right.

By the way I thought 25 hours to restore 25Gigs a tad long, in fact I can get on the internet manually in less than an hour. How long is it supposed to take

Sorry to butt in again but I spent most of yesterday playing with the "SliTaz" Linux distribution and can I just say...



It is a long time since I was this impressed by a Linux distribution. It is small, fast (like Bugatti Veyron fast) and looks nice. Once you have booted from the LiveCD (or USB thingy) you can remove the LiveCD as it runs from a RAMdisk (hence the speed) and did I mention that it is less than 30MB download ( yup, that's right a full Linux distribution with a nice graphical desktop in less than 30MB).

I would be interested to know what you guys think of it

Almost forgot...

http://www.slitaz.org/en/

"I would be interested to know what you guys think of it"

Happy, I don't have time to play with it just now, but its PXE boot capabilities make it ideal for the RenderFarm I've been (notionally) building for the last few years. I've bookmarked it for further investigation.

Well nealy done I've downloaded 2GB of applications and files in 2 days. Not 1000+ applications anymore.

At least windows update downloaded 50 updates in one go

Some things I want back I can't remember the name of; but they are important because of testing, they work.

So I'm left with a keyboard that doesn't know " from @ and email that doesn't work on the last settings I used.

It is not true windows 'home' edition can partition, but I already prepared the disk.

So now I have a 25GB windows partition; with 50GB logical extended and 120GB logical Video. Plus a 90 GB share file and the rest unused.

I don't understand the logic in putting an OP in its own partition since if restored you still have to re-install all your programs.

If I ever get the courage to try to install linux; but I don't think it will think it has enough space considering the size of disk.

I can't even get files from the other image I made using drivexml, I did the first time I had to, but now it says missing DAT file, it made the file so where has it gone.

Getting back to my really expensive Logitech illuminated keyboard; I've tried installing new drivers but just the same, but when I was looking at installing windows I looked at USA international settings, but chose to go with standard.

How do you change these settings?

Sorted keyboard problem, so left with email problem.

Have you seen the latest 3D safari