Root Access

unNaturhal

3:00 PM

And after that, appears the loadbar with "WIndows is loading file"

Bob

this should not be possible :\

unNaturhal

Why?

HaydnWVN

@Bob sounds like its found the removed/new installed windows?

Bob

well, put it this way. A boot sequence has started, is interrupted. Then it starts a different boot sequence. That...

HaydnWVN

rather than the original?

Bob

3:02 PM

@HaydnWVN but it was at least part way into booting

and we've confirmed the boot object is pointing to the correct directory

@HaydnWVN and the new one now has Lubuntu installed over the top of it

HaydnWVN

how do you know its the correct directory, 2 windows = 2 mount points of the volumes

unNaturhal

@Bob o.o Which is the diseased mind that make this possible? :/

HaydnWVN

ahhh i thought you were trying to restore the original windows?

Bob

ok, screw this

let's nuke the BCD

unNaturhal

Yeah

Bob

3:03 PM

@HaydnWVN whoops

unNaturhal

Through the DVD?

Bob

@unNaturhal yep

HaydnWVN

@Bob although that could be me getting it wrong? :P

HackToHell

facepalm

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Q: Free VPS provider?

Does anyone know where I could find a free linux VPS provider? I wan't a full image to myself. With Root access. I don't care f it's powerful or not. But I would like a little dev space to call my own. And even create other users so I can collaborate with a friend or 2 on mini dev projects.

vps

Bob

@HaydnWVN typo in my previous message :P

HaydnWVN

3:05 PM

@Bob lol ok

unNaturhal

Ok, I'm on the form after clicked on "Repair your computer"

hm

Next?

deselect the OS

Ok

Mmmh

Bob

3:07 PM

and click next

open the command prompt

unNaturhal

I just clicked nex, and now I can click on Prompt

Bob

yep

let's back up the BCD first

unNaturhal

Prompt opened

Bob

bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup_Export

attrib C:\Boot\BCD -s -h -r

unNaturhal

Nuking BCD in 3... 2... 1...

Bob

3:10 PM

ren C:\Boot\BCD BCD.BACKUP

after those three, you will no longer have a BCD

unNaturhal

@Bob Completed successfully

Bob

@unNaturhal the export is just a backup, it doesn't modify the actual BCD yet

the rename is... well, a second backup :P

unNaturhal

@Bob On this, nothing seems happened

Bob

@unNaturhal not supposed to

as long as you aren't getting errors

these are silent commands

unNaturhal

Ok :P

Bob

3:12 PM

bootrec /rebuildbcd

that will construct a new BCD

unNaturhal

Also the third command doesn't give back a message

Bob

yea

that last command should, though

unNaturhal

It asks something

Bob

?

unNaturhal

Add installation to boot list? Yes(Y)/No(N)/All(A)

Bob

3:14 PM

Y for now

there should only be one

unNaturhal

The operation completed successfully

Bob

now try rebooting :P

actually

unNaturhal

Just close, or type exit to close prompt?

:S

Bob

you can run bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot as well

shouldn't do anything, but meh

unNaturhal

Umh?

Bob

3:16 PM

and then just restart

unNaturhal

I have to give that two commands?

Bob

might as well

if the things they were supposed to fix were broken, you wouldn't have gotten into the startup repair. but they won't harm anything

and MS's repair tools seem to do different things each time you run them, anyway... :P

unNaturhal

xD

Ok, I got that commands...

Fingercrossed during the reboot...

Ok

Windows hates me...

The reboot produce the black error screen of ever

Bob

...startup repair again?!

unNaturhal

So I shut down

Bob

3:20 PM

@unNaturhal an error? :D

error is good

unNaturhal

And now

Bob

what was the error?

unNaturhal

Appears the screen where I can choose whichh modality statrts (save mode, normal mode)

Mmmmh

Bob

an error is always better than randomly starting startup repair

oh

unNaturhal

@Bob Do you remember the error that gives yesterday? The error that says to run a repair ecc?

Bob

3:21 PM

the last time I rebuilt the BCD after nuking, I had to run an automatic repair from the DVD one time before it would boot

...so try that? :P

unNaturhal

xD

And now what I have to do?

Press enter on normal mode, on safe mode, or whatelse?

Bob

@unNaturhal boot from DVD

run repair again

let automatic repair run

reboot again

thank god computers don't really have a limited number of reboot cycles :\

HackToHell

@JourneymanGeek Singapore is awesome (for the 100th time) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Helix_Bridge

unNaturhal

@Bob Ok, error again on reboot, want to know details? :P

Bob

@unNaturhal hm? did you try the auto repair from the DVD yet?

and sure, error details are always good

unNaturhal

3:24 PM

@Bob No I just rebooting the system to start from DVD

Ok

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."
3. Click "Repair your computer."

If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.

File: \Windows\system32\DRIVERS\oem-drv64.sys
Status: 0x0000428
Info: Impossible to find the digital signature of this file

Bob

wut

unNaturhal

Eh già..

Bob

uhm... remind me why you wanted to keep this Windows installation?

unNaturhal

Ahahahah

'coz there are files and settings that I can lose for any reason..

Daniel Beck

hi everyone

Bob

3:33 PM

@unNaturhal files, you can recover

settings?

cause, at this point, it may be easier to just reinstall

HaydnWVN

@DanielBeck Hey db

Bob

oh

unNaturhal

@Bob No I can't... really.. There are too many things that I'm afraid to lose.. too many important things..

Bob

@unNaturhal well, looks like a corrupted system file... back to the DVD command prompt!

unNaturhal

okey, i'm alreasy going

And, again, after clicked on the button "Repair your computer", it show me

Bob

3:36 PM

sfc /repairnow /offbootdir=D:\ /offwindir=D:\Windows

@unNaturhal just skip the automatic repair, and run that in the command prompt

unNaturhal

Windows found problems with your computer's startutp options.
Do you want to apply repairs and restart your computer?
View details

HaydnWVN

@Bob I hate how the newer 'Repair Installs' are so reliant on parts of the underlying install, they're more like an 'Installation Repair' than a 'Repair Install'

unNaturhal

Okey

Bob

@HaydnWVN I can't believe I forgot SFC! :P

Well, there was no indication of a corrupted file before, but it wouldn't have hurt to check

HaydnWVN

it runs ok from a repair prompt? :P

Bob

3:38 PM

@HaydnWVN if you booted from the DVD (has all necessary files) and specify the correct directory to check? yea, it should?

unNaturhal

Mmmh.. and now?

Bob

@unNaturhal did you run the command?

unNaturhal

Yes

Bob

did it find anything?

unNaturhal

Scans the integrity of all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions.

SFC [/SCANNOW] [/VERIFYONLY] [/SCANFILE=<FILE>] [/VERIFYFILE=<FILE>]

Where I have to see specifically?

Bob

3:44 PM

8 mins ago, by Bob

sfc /repairnow /offbootdir=D:\ /offwindir=D:\Windows

unNaturhal

yeah I got it :P

When I give enter it seems to give back the description of the command...

Mahesh

o/

Bob

wait

whoops

sfc /scannow /offbootdir=D:\ /offwindir=D:\Windows

unNaturhal

/repairnow seems to not be in the list of arguments of sfc

Bob

typo :\

unNaturhal

3:49 PM

Oh xD

Bob

2AM; if this doesn't work I should probably sleep :p

unNaturhal

@Bob 2AM? From where you write? :o

Mahesh

wait.. still struggling with the same thing/

unNaturhal

Yeah @Mahesh

Mahesh

Good luck buddy.

Bob

3:50 PM

@unNaturhal Australia

unNaturhal

Thanks;/

Bob

@Mahesh lol

so far, we've decided to nuke the old BCD (backed up) and build from scratch

Mahesh

into windows, i'm dumb. better to let someone who knows better help you.

Bob

for some reason, the old one would load startup repair halfway into the booting process of normal/safe mode. I still have no idea how that happened :\

now there's possibly corrupted system files

Mahesh

@Bob okay.

i think, may be installing LILO or GRUB orBURG or anything else is going to be easier.

wait.. but none of them will work..

unNaturhal

3:52 PM

@Bob Wow... I feel guilty to let you stay here at this time :P

Mahesh

so... umm... fix it. :/

Bob

@Mahesh they can't load Windows without the Windows bootloader working

all they can do is chainload

Mahesh

25 secs ago, by Mahesh

wait.. but none of them will work..

Bob

@unNaturhal nah, i have other things I need to do :P

Mahesh

i knew. :P

unNaturhal

3:53 PM

@Bob Ah ok ok :)

Bob

How's the scan going, @unNaturhal?

unNaturhal

@Bob I dunno, it's still on the first line

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Bob

well, the second half of that sentence answers that! :P

unNaturhal

:P

It ends

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

Bob

...

sfc /scanfile=D:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\oem-drv64.sys /offbootdir=D:\ /offwindir=D:\Windows

unNaturhal

4:03 PM

Windows resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.

Bob

:\

you should really heavily consider reinstalling

data can be migrated

programs can be reinstalled

most settings can be migrated

unNaturhal

Some data con't be saved..

Bob

huh?

unNaturhal

*can't

Bob

could you be a little more specific?

at this point, you might have to reinstall Windows somewhere else and copy these (corruptes?) files back :\

unNaturhal

4:06 PM

From new installation to the older?

Bob

that may or may not work...

perhaps try sfc from the HDD startup repair?

or try the DVD automated repair again?

or, does anyone else have an idea?

Mahesh

nope. thats probably the best way

unNaturhal

@Bob I just tried, it lasts a few seconds, then says that everything was fine, but rebooting give me the error ion that file

Mahesh

GTG

Bob

let's try the old BCD then...

@Mahesh cya

del C:\Boot\BCD

ren C:\Boot\BCD.BACKUP BCD

reboot

you should now be stuck in that repair loop again

HaydnWVN

4:10 PM

If you've got a mountable and bootable partition then i think throwing a windows install into a different DIR just to migrate stuff across is probably the best option... Well better, the best would be a fresh install on another drive, then have this one mounted and see whats recoverable

Bob

if not, then something has changed

unNaturhal

@Bob Ok wait

Bob

@HaydnWVN There's the possibility of weird permissions problems when migrating core system files

that's why I said it may or may not work :P

HaydnWVN

yeah but is there any need to migrate core windows stuff? probably not, it's more the registry and whatevers in there which is needed...

Bob

@HaydnWVN Oh, i thought you meant migrate from a workign installation to replace corrupted files

yea, it should be possible to recover jsut about any settings/preferences from the old installation to the newer one

HaydnWVN

4:12 PM

as a repair can't seem to fix the windows install i don't think theres much you can do - replacing BCD only fixes the mounting issues, not something damaged within the filesystem a sfc and repair install can't picking or fix?

it's like flogging a dead horse :P

Bob

lol

I'm thinking a sfc from the startup repair may have better results

I'm not entirely certain the DVD based one actually loads the reference files properly :P

ooooor... system restore?!

@unNaturhal do you have any system restore points?

HaydnWVN

i've never had much success with startup repair, the couple of times its worked the problems havn't been Big

unNaturhal

@Bob I dont' trust in system restore point..

HaydnWVN

hometime for me anyways, goodluck guys :)

Bob

@unNaturhal they were bad in XP. Since Vista, they'll fix anything OS related short of actual FS corruption...

saved my system so many times :P

but yea, there's some things you can try

unNaturhal

4:16 PM

@Bob h, just for this reason.. in XP there were useless

Bob

sfc from startup repair

unNaturhal

How?

Bob

@unNaturhal they also 'fix' most virus infections, as long as they don't target the restore points

@unNaturhal go into startup repair, load command prompt, run sfc /scannow /offbootdir=D:\ /offwindir=D:\Windows

uhm

automatic reepair from DVD

install Windows, copy files

those are some options

I have no solid ideas at this point :\

Luke

Hmmm... It seems this room forgot all my stars...

Bob

the partition has been recovered (chkdsk)

the bootloader has been restored

now there's some corrupted system files... not nice.

but this particular error could mean there's still something wrong with the bootloader too, not necessarily the system files

gah

unNaturhal

4:20 PM

@Bob Wait, a thing a time :P

Bob

@unNaturhal I need to go now :P

unNaturhal

@Bob Oh, I'm sorry :P

Bob

Unfortnately, I really can't think of anything that has a high chance of working

so 'just beat it till it works'

or give in, install Windows from scratch, and migrate settings/data from the still accessible old installation

unNaturhal

It's possible that the version of windows that I'm using to repair was not good for this purpose?

Bob

or ask other people - this room has been oddly quiet from other people :P

@unNaturhal If they're both SP1, it should be fine

unNaturhal

4:22 PM

@Bob They should..

Bob

the OS language doesn't matter, except for very few files

anyway, good luck

sorry, I can't really help more at this point :\

unNaturhal

Thank you for the help and for your time

Bob

unless I get a sudden idea or something

unNaturhal

But I will not surrender, maybe tomorrow we well meet again here to try something else :P

Bob

lol

ok

good luck

unNaturhal

4:24 PM

Thanks:P

Goo night man :)

Tom Wijsman

4:39 PM

Back from vacation!

Typing feels weird... :(

And my screen seems bigger than it was before the vacation. :D

Luke

0

Q: Windows logs in with AC adapter, but not on battery

Here's a real head scratcher... A customer's laptop (Panasonic Toughbook) will log in and run perfectly fine while plugged in to AC power. Great. Now, if I unplug the laptop, then turn it on, it never gets past the Windows logon screen. If I plug it in, get past the Windows logon screen, then un...

windows-xp laptop-battery panasonic-toughbook

Tom Wijsman

@Luke: Did you try the event log?

Also, does logging in on AC and logging out then logging in on Battery work?

If not, you could run one of the performance monitor tools on the login screen using psexec.

Luke

@TomWijsman Not yet. I'm trying with the UBCD4Win first to see if it's going to do the same thing. I will check that next. May as well make it an answer for now, I just like shamelessly advertising my questions

Mokubai

4:54 PM

@Luke, tried going into the "quick settings" app (or wahtever the equivalent is for Panasonic) and looking at network card options? I used to use a Dell Lappy that had some setting in the bloatware that let you disable the onboard LAN if AC power wasn't applied...

Supposedly it was a power saving feature

Luke

@Mokubai K I'll try that

But it boots into UBCD4Win no issues on battery

Tom Wijsman

5:10 PM

@Mokubai: Good suggestion, endless logging in is usually due to a time out waiting for the internet to respond.

dnbrv

I've done my searching but I can't figure out how to increase the frequency of shadow copy creation on a stand-alone client.

Which task in the Scheduler is it?

Mokubai

@Luke It may be that it disables the network adaptor in Windows in which case will have absolutely no effect in any operating system outside of that particular install of Windows.

@Luke Does your network adaptor have activity lights on it?

Is so you may see them "go off" when you disconnect the AC power or if you go into your Network connections control panel in XP and see if the adaptor gets diabled when you disconnect AC

Though it's just a guess as I've seen it happen with Dell machines, YMMV :)

Daniel Beck

5:56 PM

I <3 posting main site answers on meta sites.

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A: accomodations for visually impaired

This is fairly easy to accomplish using IE's Accessibility options in Tools » Internet Options » General » Accessibility. If you follow the instructions to the letter, results look as blindingly amazing as this: Create a file named userstyle-programmers.css and enter the following contents: ....

Luke

6:32 PM

@Mokubai Just got back to the shop, trying that right now

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Luke

When unplugged, it is still showing as powered "on" for WLAN and LAN, although only the WLAN is connected

Sathya

case ya'll haven't noticed, the Chrome's wrench icon is no longer there :( http://i.imgur.com/rkbMh.png

Tweeted by SathyaBhat on August 8, 2012 at 6:42 PM

sidran32

@Sathya Were you the one looking for SU-esque sites?

Sathya

@sidran32 as in?

sidran32

6:46 PM

As in sites that look like SuperUser

Someone was doing that some time ago. I don't remember who.

I found an open sourced Q&A site project that looks like it took a lot of cues from this site's design: osqa.net

Sathya

@sidran32 no, that wouldn't be me

OSQA is quite well known & better of the SE clones

Daniel Beck

@sidran32 Big surprise there... meta.osqa.net/questions/115/…

sidran32

Aha. I didn't know if anyone saw it before :P

I hadn't.

Mokubai

@Luke Pity, it seemed like an option. Difficult to diagnose otherwise without actually having the machine...

sidran32

@DanielBeck Ah, huh. Never heard of that.

Daniel Beck

6:57 PM

Chinese-language clone of stackoverflow - the best ever online Qestion & Answer site for the English-speaking programmers - and posted source code on google code some time in May 2009 ... the code was forked dozens of times by others ... OSQA (Open Source Question and Answer) as a project to help organize and coordinate the various independent forks into a new mainstream version

Only saw it on MSO a while back

sidran32

nods

brb, rebooting after upgrading Synergy...

Back

Mokubai

@Luke Not sure if it is there in XP but in the Device Manager page for the network card is there a page for power management on which you can uncheck the "Allow windows to disable this device"

sidran32

@Sathya Still there for me. :o Chrome probably hasn't auto-updated for me yet.

Mokubai

@Luke Otherwise is there some configuration tool or updated drivers for the network adaptor?

sidran32

grumbles I hate AVG.

Mokubai

7:14 PM

What's wrong with AVG?

It's better than some of the alternatives...

Which is almost like saying having pneumonia is at least better than having ebola.

sidran32

@Mokubai Their practices are shady. For instance, lately, they snuck themselves into the Synergy installer. When I install Synergy, unless I click "custom installation" on a very non-logo'd page of the install wizard, and uncheck it all, it changes my homepage and search engine to an AVG-branded Google search, on all my installed browsers.

Stuff like that isn't uncommon with AVG. It annoys me to no end.

Mokubai

Hmmm

sidran32

I just use MSE and the Windows Firewall.

Look:

So easy to miss... and I did a couple times.

When my homepages and search engines changed, I thought I got a virus...

Note: That's the default option selected in that screenshot.

Mokubai

7:30 PM

Nice :-/

sidran32

Unless you uninstall the toolbar, it will revert any changes you make to your homepages and search engines too. I don't even know of a legitimate reason to write a program to do that, unless you're a sysadmin at a highly regulated corporation...

Mokubai

Much oddness, been tempted to change to MSE at some point... probably will on my next reinstall. Is MSE any good? I keep hearing good things...

The main thing I don't want is for my machine to be crippled by antivirus. AVG is reasonably lightweight compared to some.

Luke

@Mokubai I agree it's hard to diagnose without it there, but that window for the device is also set to not go to sleep

sidran32

@Mokubai MSE is very good. It's incredibly lightweight, out of your way until you need it, and is regularly updated. It also gets great reviews in terms of how well it detects threats.

4

And, of course, it's fully free, with no ads or nagware.

Mokubai

@sidran32 I suspect it'll be on my list next reinstall then

sidran32

7:37 PM

:)

Luke

ninite.com/… is what I install on new systems

Mokubai

@Luke It definitely sounds like some configuration problem with the network card and AC power... anything in Control Panel -> Power Options (or whatever it is on XP)

sidran32

I used to use ESET Smart Security, which is a great product, but it's also not free and acted a little odd with some software. However, it also is very lightweight and out of your way, and the way you buy licenses for it are as simple as can be.

Mokubai

My current system came with McAfee and until I uninstalled that POS I could honestly not tell the difference between the new machine and the old one and it was not an insignificant upgrade.

Luke

It's all set to stay on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever...

Mokubai

7:42 PM

Perplexing.

sidran32

From Wikipedia, this is actually kind of funny: On 30 September 2011, a faulty definition update caused Microsoft Security Essentials to incorrectly tag Google Chrome as malware. The issue was resolved within three hours.[54][55]

Mokubai

@Luke how long have you waited at the logon screen for? I assume a long while...

@sidran32 Well, at least they're paying attention

Luke

About 5 seconds

Anyone know any good SQL injection attacks? I got a spammer website with a broken PHP page

sidran32

@Luke Those are relatively straight forward, actually.

Mokubai

@Luke Anything odd in Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services? Wireless set to startup automagically, fast logon enabled etc? check what should be on at blackviper.com/service-configurations/…

sidran32

7:47 PM

Find an input field and throw SQL in it. If the site is poorly coded, it will execute.

Tom Wijsman

@sidran32: SQL injections take a little more than that, usually.

Mokubai

Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

sidran32

@TomWijsman Well, a little more. I wasn't trying to be too descriptive. :P

That's basically what I was referring to. Of course you would have to figure out the names of tables and the like. So it's not a one-off thing.

@TomWijsman I was once helping a friend of mine code a custom CMS/forum website in PHP. There were two developers who contributed most of the code. The other one started the basic framework, but had to take off not long after he finished it, so I had to code up everything else based on it. I had to audit the code for security and everything, too.

Fun thing when you're teaching yourself PHP, SQL, and JS at the same time. But I think I did pretty well.

Tom Wijsman

@Luke Makes me wonder if you're wearing a white hat.

sidran32

Except we had an established userbase and when the authentication code was created, passwords were only MD5 hashed, with no salt. I couldn't figure out a good way to fix that without disrupting the site in a major way...

Mokubai

7:59 PM

@TomWijsman my hat is a distinctly dubious shade of gray

Tom Wijsman

@sidran32: Consider the MD5 password as being the plain password and taking a salted hash based on the MD5 password.

@Mokubai Hmm right, that hat too.

Mokubai

Sadly it's probably more white than black, but it definitely has some darker patches

sidran32

@TomWijsman That's actually a good idea... though if I ended up hashing it twice, wouldn't it increase the chances of collisions?

I stepped down from the project a long time ago though, anyway.

Tom Wijsman

@sidran32 Depends on the second hash, you could try figure out if the second hash actually does not result in any collisions

sidran32

I think that's just how the math goes... the output of the hashing algorithm is a subset of the potential inputs, so hashing over and over again decreases the size of the resulting set of hashes, meaning more chances to collide...

At least, that's how it makes sense in my mind.

I haven't studied that stuff in a while.

Tom Wijsman

8:07 PM

With a static hash you can make it you don't get collisions I think. With a dynamic hash you probably indeed get more collissions.

But well, it's either that or rehashing your users' passwords as they login.

sidran32

@TomWijsman Ya, and I did do something like that when I added IP address tracking to the engine. Though I always kind of saw it as a hacky work-around for such things.

Luke

8:35 PM

@TomWijsman Of course I am... <looks left then right>

@Mokubai Not a clue, but got a PHP error page

Warning: fopen(list.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/llhf/public_html/www.apple.com.ca/unsubscribe/unsubscribe.php on line 19

Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/llhf/public_html/www.apple.com.ca/unsubscribe/unsubscribe.php on line 21

Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/llhf/public_html/www.apple.com.ca/unsubscribe/unsubscribe.php on line 23

Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /home/llhf/public_html/www.apple.com.ca/unsubscribe/unsub…

Tom Wijsman

@Luke websec.ca/kb/sql_injection

Luke

Hmm... I'm guessing I don't know how to do that then

Tom Wijsman

@Luke: I don't see how that's an SQL injection related warning. More interesting would be that it might be possible that you could try to access that list.txt.

Under standard settings on Apache2 and IIS I believe .txt would be accessible, giving you a complete mailing list. If so, go report to them... :)

Luke

Empty file... I'm guessing it's locked on their side too

If only I could list all the files...

Tom Wijsman

Perhaps you emptied the file in an attempt to do a SQL injection? :D

Rob

8:52 PM

lol

unNaturhal

Hi guys

Luke

@TomWijsman If only :P But when I go to the /list.txt it shows blank

apple.com.ca.llhf.net/unsubscribe if anyone wants to try

Tom Wijsman

@Luke What about apple.com.ca.llhf.net/unsubscribe/aoehstuoaueh.txt to see if that responds differently?

Luke

404

Tom Wijsman

It could also be that your browser doesn't know how to respond to the MIME, in which case you could try appending view-source: or find some alternative way to open it such that it doesn't try to parse it but just shows you the text.

Or check response headers and all that.

Luke

9:03 PM

@TomWijsman Instructions?

Tom Wijsman

But if it returns empty it's a high chance that it's actually empty.

Using the web development tools in your favorite browser, like Firebug or Web Inspector.

Luke

Ahhh OK

@TomWijsman Logging off and on doesn't change it as long as it started with AC power, it seems. Going to try Event Log and Safe Mode

unNaturhal

9:29 PM

@Mahesh @Bob Could you tell me how I can open the .img file created with 'dd' command?

(open just to see how are the file and directory inside it)

Luke

9:40 PM

@unNaturhal I believe that it is just a format only dd can read, so you'd have to output it to another device

unNaturhal

@Luke What do you mean?

Luke

@unNaturhal FWIU, it does a backup with block-level access, so you'd need something that could read the blocks as well. It doesn't care about the file system itself, so it doesn't see folders or icons or files, it just sees raw data

unNaturhal

@Luke Oh.. I see... So, to recover the data backupped with dd command, I have to executa another time dd command on the contrary?

Luke

Yes, using the .img file as the if=

unNaturhal

Ok, thank you :)

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