On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Avinash Sonawane <[email protected]> wrote: > I am running Ubuntu 11.04. But now due to some or other reasons I have > to format my entire disk and reinstall the Ubuntu, > But I have Installed many softwares on Natty. And when I'll reinstall
WARNING: you may lose all your data. understand all the steps first and try it somewhere else if you want. It'll take a lot of time but you can create an image of your entire linux partition (see dd for it). You'll have to be very careful with the fdisk. Recreate exactly the same partition table after formatting (whatever that means because by this method, you'll end up with exactly the same old system) and move back the image. Something on the lines of 1. dd if=/dev/sda1 of=?? 2. fdisk -l > ?? 3. format drive (again, whatever that means) 4. recreate partition table (refer to data from step 2) 5. dd if=?? of=/dev/sda1 SB -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
