Need Help - system crash

[Ben Tinner]

OnFriday, 29 July 2011 10:33 PM, Nils Kasube wrote:
>compdoc wrote:
>> >http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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>> That looks a nifty program. Does someone make a bootable cd version?
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><http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd>
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>Nils
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I reccommend tying GParted Live at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/


	1. Download the GParted Live zip file. 
	2. If you already have a FAT16 or FAT32 partition on your USB flash drive then skip to the next step (3).
Otherwise prepare at least a 200 MB partition formatted with either a FAT16 or FAT32 file system.
If the USB flash drive or USB hard drive does not have
    any partition, you can use a partitioning tool (e.g. gparted, parted, fdisk,
    cfdisk or sfdisk) to create a partition with a size of 200 MB or
    more.
Here we assume your USB flash drive or USB hard drive is /dev/sdd
    (You have to comfirm your device name, since it's _NOT_ always /dev/sdd) on your GNU/Linux, so the partition table is like: 
# fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 12.8 GB, 12884901888 bytes 15 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26630 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 = 483840 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000c2aa7 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdd1   *           1       26630    12582643+   b  W95 FAT32 
Then format the partition as FAT with a command such as "mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdd1"
WARNING! Executing the mkfs.vfat command on the wrong partition or device could cause your GNU/Linux not to boot.  Be sure to confirm the command before you run it. 
# mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdd1 mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) 
	3. Insert your USB flash drive or USB hard drive into the USB port on your Linux machine and wait a few seconds. Next, run the command "dmesg" to query the device name of the USB flash drive or USB hard drive. Let's say, for example, that you find it is /dev/sdd1. In this example, we assume /dev/sdd1 has FAT filesystem, and it is automatically mounted in dir /media/usb/. If it's not automatically mounted, manually mount it with commands such as "mkdir -p /media/usb; mount /dev/sdd1 /media/usb/". 
	4. Unzip all the files and copy them into your USB flash drive or USB hard drive.  You can do this with a command such as: "unzip gparted-live-0.4.5-2.zip -d /media/usb/"). Keep the directory architecture, for example, file "COPYING" should be in the USB flash drive or USB hard drive's top directory (e.g. /media/usb/COPYING). 
	5. To make your USB flash drive bootable, first change the working dir, e.g. "cd /media/usb/utils/linux", then run "bash makeboot.sh /dev/sdd1" (replace /dev/sdd1 with your USB flash drive device name), and follow the prompts.
WARNING! Executing makeboot.sh with the wrong device name could cause your GNU/Linux not to boot.  Be sure to confirm the command before you run it.

NOTE: There is a known problem if you run makeboot.sh on Debian
    Etch, since the program utils/linux/syslinux does not work
    properly.  Make sure you run it on newer GNU/Linux, such as Debian
    Lenny, Ubuntu 8.04, or Fedora 9. Ben Tinner
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