Root Access

Windows canno find a system image on this computer
Attach the backup hard disk or insert the final dvd from a backup set and click Retry. Alternatively, close this dialog for more options.

Bob

though that Linux thing should have done something similar... wait what?

unNaturhal

How I can open the prompt?

Bob

huh

press cancel on that screen

close for more options

unNaturhal

Ah ok :p

Prompt opened :D

Bob

I forgot that screen appears :P

run the two commands above to be sure

unNaturhal

11:22 AM

First completed successfully

Second too

Bob

then run bootrec /scanos

unNaturhal

Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified windows installlations: 0
The operation completed suuccessfully.

Bob

ah

you can try bootrec /rebuildbcd, but you aren't likely to get anything out of it

next step

do a dir /a:h C:\

You should see the file bootmgr there, and the folder Boot

unNaturhal

Yes

Bob

good

now try the same for D:\

wait

no

dir D:\

Don't do the /a:h

unNaturhal

11:26 AM

The volume does not contain a recognized file sistem.
Please make sure etc etc.

Bob

Is the Windows folder there?

Ehm?

ah crud

/a:h d:\?

no

dir D:\

unNaturhal

11:27 AM

In c:\ there isn't windows folder

Bob

C:\ is the boot partition, it should not have Windows. D:\ should have Windows

unNaturhal

Mmmh..

Ok, but it dir D:\ dioesn't work..

Bob

...damn

that's really getting weird

I did this a while back, but can't quite remember every step :P

unNaturhal

aybe it had another name?

Bob

Try diskpart

list volume

How many volumes?

Specifically, look for a 60GB NTFS volume

unNaturhal

11:29 AM

5 volumes.. from 0 to 4

60GB is the Volume 2

Bob

Does it have a letter?

unNaturhal

Yes.. D

Bob

Ltr

unNaturhal

But the collumn Fs is RAW

Bob

Oh crud

ok

unNaturhal

11:31 AM

We have a prolem?

Bob

your OS partition is coming up as unformatted for some reason

unNaturhal

(another...)

O_O

Bob

ok, now things get tricky...

unNaturhal

..

It's ppossible that the program is wrong?

Bob

I wouldn't risk chkdsk on a RAW partition, if it even runs

diskpart reports what Windows sees. The fact that you can't read D: is an indicator :\

How many NTFS volumes are there?

unNaturhal

11:36 AM

@Bob It means that running chkdsk could delete the partition?

Two NTFS

Bob

And the other one is your data one?

unNaturhal

One is Data, and the other is 100MB partition

Bob

..

unNaturhal

And the satus of all volumes is Healty

Bob

do you have enough free space to hold the entirety of your OS partition (i.e. over 60GB)?

unNaturhal

11:40 AM

On the Data partition.. yes

Bob

good

the first rule of recovering a file system is to back up the data first

first thing to do is go back to Linux

and clone the partition into a file

unNaturhal

Ok wait, I note down the report of diskpart

Bob

The output of diskpart won't be useful in Linux

unNaturhal

Diskpart> list volume report:

Volume ###   Ltr   Labbel         Fs      Type            Size      Status
----------   ---   ------------   -----   ------------    -------   ----------
Volume 0      F    GSP1RMCULXF    UDF     DVD-ROM         2048B     Healty
Volume 1      C    Riservato per  NTFS    Partition       100MB     Healty
Volume 2      D                   RAW     Partition       60GB      Healty
Volume 3      E    Data           NTFS    Partition       193GB     Healty
Volume 4      G    SW             exFAT   Removable       242MB     Healty

Bob

Anyway, once you get back into Linux, confirm the device file. Use sudo fdisk -l again and find the 60GB one. It was sda2 last time

Also, make sure your Data partition is mounted

unNaturhal

11:45 AM

I close this prompt and alll the rest?

Bob

Type exit to get out of diskpart. Then you can just power off

unNaturhal

Ok, now I have a pproblem..

I have to go to eat

Bob

?

oh lol

it's getting a little late here to

hm

confirm the device file

well

unNaturhal

How?

Bob

I'll assume it's sda2 here

2 mins ago, by Bob

Anyway, once you get back into Linux, confirm the device file. Use sudo fdisk -l again and find the 60GB one. It was sda2 last time

2 mins ago, by Bob

Also, make sure your Data partition is mounted

unNaturhal

11:48 AM

I can leave everything open, I'll back in 30-40 minutes (I hope it) :)

Bob

Then use dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/path/to/file/on/data/partition

that will clone the partition to a file you can keep as a backup

then we can try things like chkdsk, fsck and testdisk to repair it. If something goes wrong, you can write the clone file back to the partition.

Einsteins Grandson

Can I have a question guys?

Bob

I'll probably disappear in about an hour

@EinsteinsGrandson ?

unNaturhal

@Bob Ok, understood :)

I hope to find you later, bbut anyway thank you very very very very much for the help :)

Now I go to lunch, see ya :)

Bob

@unNaturhal bye! If I'm gone when you get back, good luck!

Einsteins Grandson

11:52 AM

When I have a notebook which has HDMI bus... and I am playing Blu Ray Disc on my laptop and want to send the signal via HDMI to LCD TV with 1920 x 1080 resolution... will the signal be of the original quality?

Boris_yo

Why when I search for *.JPG files and sort them by size, many files don't show their size?

Einsteins Grandson

I mean HDMI has a bitrate of 10 Mbit/s and Blu Ray has a bitrate of 40 Mbit/s

Bob

@EinsteinsGrandson Wikipedia on HDMI: Bitrate 10.2 Gbit/s

Einsteins Grandson

My fault

Bob

@Boris_yo Try switching to the detailed view

Einsteins Grandson

11:54 AM

;-)

Thank you and enjoy the Olympics

Bob

@EinsteinsGrandson But yea, as long as your graphics card (and player) is good enough that it does not stutter, everything should be more or less the same as any other BD player

@Boris_yo It's sorting by size, not necessarily displaying the size. That depends on the view. In the tiled view, size is pushed out if the filename becomes too long, as you can see.

Shyam K

names are too big? three lines of text are there usually right?
filename
type
size

so when the names are too big the filenames extend onto the second line and hence everything else also gets pushed down?

Journeyman Geek

yay, i got this damned thing working again

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek yay!

sup there!

Journeyman Geek

lol. Internet sucks in thirupur ;p

Boris_yo

12:08 PM

Yes I think. Extensions are pushed down like this:

filename
.jpg

@JourneymanGeek Where?

Journeyman Geek

@Boris_yo: small town in south india. Its the heart of the dyeing industry

Boris_yo

Look here: Algeria sucks

http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ~~dyeing~~ dying

well, with crappy internet anyway :P

Boris_yo

Look here: Sudan sucks with upload

http://www.netindex.com/upload/allcountries/

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: takes me two or three refreshes to even load a room

and multiple retrys to post anything

Boris_yo

12:13 PM

@JourneymanGeek Are you in Thirupur?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Sounds like me going through tor

when 99% of tor nodes are blocked

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: tor is faster than this

Bob

I swear there's just one unblocked tor node that I keep hitting

and even then it takes an hour to hit it :P

Journeyman Geek

hell, my last dialup connection was faster than...

Oh wait. EVER DIALUP CONNECTION I HAVE EVER HAD other than the 1200 kbps modem we had pre internet was faster than this

hell, my last dialup connection was faster than...

HaydnWVN

@Boris_yo netindex.com/download/2,215/Mauritania Soon they'll have no internet at all! ;)

@JourneymanGeek I bet theres less bandwidth and more latancy coming from curosity ;)

Although it would be pretty awesome if the connection to mars was quicker lol

Boris_yo

12:17 PM

It is in the news:

http://www.webpronews.com/iran-taking-state-infrastructure-offline-next-month-2012-08

Bob

@HaydnWVN Higher latency, definitely. Bandwidth is debatable.

Throughput would be low, though :P

Oliver Salzburg

support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/…

That sucks

No more one-click install of userscripts :P

slhck

12:40 PM

@OliverSalzburg I've had that for longer, it really really sucks.

Oliver Salzburg

@slhck I just wanted to install AutoReviewComments on my laptop :P

heya @slhck

sup @JourneymanGeek!

not much ;p

:P

12:44 PM

trying to catch up on rss feeds, and wondering if I should snag and attempt to work out how RMS's internet over e mail script works

slhck

never heard of that

Journeyman Geek

;p

Its on his page on how he uses a computer ;p

isn't *that desperate yet, thankfully*

Diogo

There are 1,5k Low quality posts for me...

Why system says I dont have any?

slhck

@Diogo Could be because you have seen them all.

Boris_yo

@Diogo 1.5K x $1 = $1500!

slhck

12:51 PM

And the 1.5k is for all users

In fact, I have 1.8 there

Diogo

:(

slhck

So, I believe every post needs to be reviewed by more than one user

jokerdino

IIRC, it is 2

slhck

It was with the old /review, so the assumption seems reasonable

unNaturhal

1:25 PM

Hi guys

jokerdino

hi

unNaturhal

1:44 PM

Ok, I just discover that we have disgraced also grub xD

I can't start lubuntu now...

jokerdino

:(

unNaturhal

Damned grub...

Mahesh

what did you do to grub?

unNaturhal

It explode...

I got what you say (with the usbkey)

Mahesh

if you still have that super grub disk, or the usb i asked u to make, use it. you an boot into existing os, if thereis any.

unNaturhal

1:59 PM

Yes, I have

Mahesh

okay, you can use it to boot into existing OS.

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