[GLLUG] Today Meeting

[Karl Schuttler]

The drive's master boot record probably got wiped; you need to restore
it using a boot disk.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Jeremy Neil <jrmyzero at gmail.com> wrote:
> isnt there a way to test drive intergrity with a llive cd boot.. aka using
> that to run a test in terminal. ive at least done this before when i wasnt
> sure why the gnome panels werent working when i used ubuntu 10.04 on my old
> desktop. however i dont remember if you can mount the hard drive while the
> live is booted. anyways this is my advice
>
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>> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:43:03 -0500
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>> Hi all I would appreciate if somebody would help me to bring back to life
>> an old Dell laptop. I am planning in bring it to todays meeting. The problem
>> I have is that I cant get it to boot. When I try to turn it on I get a
>> screen that says "no bootable device"  I had Ubuntu 10.04 LTS running on it
>> yesterday.
>> Please if somebody has some ideas I will appreciate them. If somebody have
>> some tool to subtract the HD and a way to test it on another laptop using
>> external cables will be good too. I'll see you later
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>> Benjamin Chavez
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