Hello,
I have been a unix/linux user for roughly 15 years, but have just recently learned about the concepts and power behind grml (yesterday).
I am blind, and an very pleased with the integration of speakup and brltty into the grml live cd.
My first "job" with grml is to try to diagnose/recover a windows laptop. It had problems right from the beginning when we opened the box from the manufacturer, but my daughter was able to keep it going for 2.5 yerars. This spring it simply stopped booting even after a full re-install of windows.
Any tips on system diagnostics that I could run would be appreciated.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:41:06AM -0700, DON.RAIKES@oracle.com wrote:
Hello,
My first "job" with grml is to try to diagnose/recover a windows laptop. It had problems right from the beginning when we opened the box from the manufacturer, but my daughter was able to keep it going for 2.5 yerars. This spring it simply stopped booting even after a full re-install of windows.
Does it boot from CD but not from Harddisk? Than maybe the hard disk just died. You can check the hard disk by mounting it under Linux. If you can not mount it (or not access it with tools like fdisk) then the hard disk is dead. If you can mount it you can then check if it's only partly damaged by running smartctl, e.g. smartcl -t short /dev/hda. Results will be accessible with smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda. If this test is ok, too, then run smartctl -t long /dev/hda for a more precise test.
greets Jimmy
Hi again
Try testdisk for a diagnosis. Read ntfstools and/or ntfs3g
To safely mount an ntfs partition use ntfsmount Unmount with fusermount -u ...
Sorry that is the best I can do.
Really good luck Moss
Hello,
I have been a unix/linux user for roughly 15 years, but have just recently learned about the concepts and power behind grml (yesterday).
I am blind, and an very pleased with the integration of speakup and brltty into the grml live cd.
My first "job" with grml is to try to diagnose/recover a windows laptop. It had problems right from the beginning when we opened the box from the manufacturer, but my daughter was able to keep it going for 2.5 yerars. This spring it simply stopped booting even after a full re-install of windows.
Any tips on system diagnostics that I could run would be appreciated._______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml@mur.at http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
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