On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:20, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:Well, when you are the local "computer Geek", you tend to find tools to make troubleshooting easy. I never know what flavor of hard drive, or what other tool I am going to need, so I have a few CD's I take with me.
The tools from the drive manfacturer are their own boot disk. You usualy download a program that creates the floppy. Then boot with the floppy. Or, if you don't like having the larger collection of floppies, you download the Ultimate Boot CD from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and boot with that when you need the tools.
Mikkel
Good heavens, Mikkel. How did you find that ?
I'll dive into it ASAP.
Now, just don't let us get carried away : I wanted some method to defrag this crappy Microsoft FAT32 file system. WindowsXP can't do it. Neither can Linux. So, I figured that backing up the entire content, re-formatting and restoring might be the way to go.
But as the file system seems to be "hard coded", and I know that Linux can "fix anything", I'll download your Floppy-CD, lean back and watch the battle....
Have a nice week-end...
Kaj Haulrich.
I have this nice collection of business card CD's as well, that I keep tucked in my tool box as well. Because you never know when you will need them.
Let me know how well the CD works for you on the USB drive. I have not had a chance to do much testing of USB drives with it. One more thing on my "To Do" list, but I keep getting sidetracked...
Now, on the other hand, I don't think the file system in "hard coded" on the USB drive. (Check my other message, where I address the fdisk warnings.) So you should be able to change the drive to an ext3 file system. Remember - the 1024 cylinder warning doesn't apply to Linux. Any BIOS that is going to have a problem with that limit, is not going to be able to boot off a USB device in the first place. And you were not planning on booting a Linux system off the drive anyway.
You may want to take a look at
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SystemRecovery
for some other interesting CDs. Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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