Would I be able to format 1gig of the drive and the access the drive or maybe install windows on that 1gig and then access?
And is Parted Magic linux? Once I boot up with parted magic from the flash drive how do I try and access the drive?
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geekgirrl wrote:HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Take THAT best buy! Booted to parted magic on my flash drive, it was very easy to use and figure out, accessed the drive with NO PROBLEM when so many I called locally said the drive was dead and the data was probably lost. What a Bunch of BS! I guess I need to charge people $150 for data recovery since bb charges $250 just to start on it.
I pulled the data off the drive and checked it and it was all perfect.
Thanks to EVERYONE who commented on this thread! You guys Rock! Thanks!
If linux is anything like Parted Magic I need to load it on my laptop as a dual boot because it was awesome.
geekgirrl wrote:HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Take THAT best buy! Booted to parted magic on my flash drive, it was very easy to use and figure out, accessed the drive with NO PROBLEM when so many I called locally said the drive was dead and the data was probably lost. What a Bunch of BS! I guess I need to charge people $150 for data recovery since bb charges $250 just to start on it.
I pulled the data off the drive and checked it and it was all perfect.
Thanks to EVERYONE who commented on this thread! You guys Rock! Thanks!
If linux is anything like Parted Magic I need to load it on my laptop as a dual boot because it was awesome.
geekgirrl wrote:Everything works great with my two smaller WD drives at 40 & 80gig.
Flatland_Spider wrote:Fedora is a nice, but it's a little more technical. It's also going through a cycle of experimentation, so things might be weird for a little bit.
thegleek wrote:geekgirrl wrote:Everything works great with my two smaller WD drives at 40 & 80gig.
Man.. How rare is this nowadays... 40/80g hdd's? seriously? I haven't seen those in 5-10 years now! They are as extinct as dodo birds these days! You can buy a usb stick with that much storage for under $50 too! lol just laughing at this is all.
thegleek wrote:VERY rare: 3.5" maxtor 7120AI 129mb ide hdd (YES 129 friggin megabytes only! LOL)
just brew it! wrote:Flatland_Spider wrote:Fedora is a nice, but it's a little more technical. It's also going through a cycle of experimentation, so things might be weird for a little bit.
Isn't that Fedora's default state?
I started out with Redhat/Fedora over 10 years ago, and jumped ship for Ubuntu a few years back when I started getting serious about using Linux as my default desktop OS. I currently run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS + GNOME 2 as my desktop OS (both home and work). Depending on how 12.04 LTS looks I may stick with Ubuntu or jump ship again for Debian; the Unity and GNOME 3 desktops annoy me, so I'm probably switching to KDE or XFCE for the desktop environment regardless of what base distro I end up with.
Flatland_Spider wrote:@thegleek
I have, like, 12 80GB hard drives from a server that I have no idea what I'm going to do with.
Flatland_Spider wrote:I just switch my laptop, an ancient R51 Thinkpad, over to Debian wheezy for performance and curiosity reasons. I still don't like Debian or apt, but it's fun to learn new things.
Flatland_Spider wrote:Xfce is my desktop of choice; it's simple and just works. KDE is getting nice again, and it has lots of cool technology as it always has.
just brew it! wrote:Funny you should say that; package management was one of the reasons I switched to Ubuntu! Yum/pirut was quite a train wreck back in the day; I vastly prefer apt. I guess Fedora swapped pirut out for PackageKit a few versions back?
The main drawback of KDE these days is that it's a horrendous resource (RAM) pig. But RAM is cheap, so that's less of an issue than it would've been a couple of years ago. I would hesitate to install it on a 32-bit system though; you'll probably chew up close to a third of your available RAM just running the desktop.
Flatland_Spider wrote:Pirut was pretty bad, and PackageKit has gotten better. I still prefer Yumex (Yum Extender) or CLI yum.
Flatland_Spider wrote:I've never noticed the RAM thing, but I have noticed how video card dependent it is. It really likes more modern video cards versus older cards. Of course my frame of comparison is a seven year old ATI mobile video card and a Nvidia GeForce 8600GT.