Removing Recovery Partitions from Dell Laptop

I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know ...

Message posted on the July 14th, 2012 - 11:59 AM ET

Seagate Tops 1 Million Mark in Shipments of Self-Encrypting Hard Drives for Laptop PC’s and Data Center Servers

Customer adoption swells as more computer makers ship systems powered by Seagate® SEDs, Seagate’s security alliances grow, and more SEDs win key government certification.

Press published on the February 14th, 2011 - 6:59 AM ET

Clean Re-install Vista Problem on Dell Laptop

Computer == Dell Inspiron 1520 System DVD == Window Vista Home Edition (distribute by Dell) I need wipe off entire C drive and perform a clean install Vista over current installed Vista. Here is the steps I went through and had problem finally: ...

Message posted on the July 3rd, 2009 - 12:11 AM ET

[gentoo-user] dual booting windows 7, extended partitions, and the mbr

I just bought a dell laptop with a single large (500GB) disk. I find getting dell service is easier if I have windows installed so I reinstalled windows from its original configuration of claiming all the space to "just" 30GB. However ...

Message posted on the June 7th, 2010 - 11:10 PM ET

Bug#641264: debian-installer: cannot install to already encrypted partitions

Package: debian-installer Version: 20110106+squeeze3 Severity: normal I am trying to re-install Debian wheezy to an already encrypted root partition (in order to migrate from i386 to amd64). Now, when I just boot the installer CD, and choose ...

Message posted on the September 12th, 2011 - 4:20 AM ET

[34-longterm 000/196] v2.6.34.11 longterm review

This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the v2.6.34.11 release. There are 196 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a ...

Message posted on the March 12th, 2012 - 7:20 PM ET

[000/143] 2.6.32.40-longterm review

This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the 2.6.32.40 release. There are 143 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a ...

Message posted on the May 5th, 2011 - 9:00 PM ET

[000/143] 2.6.32.40-longterm review

This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the 2.6.32.40 release. There are 143 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a ...

Message posted on the May 5th, 2011 - 9:00 PM ET

[000/143] 2.6.32.40-longterm review

This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the 2.6.32.40 release. There are 143 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a ...

Message posted on the May 5th, 2011 - 9:00 PM ET

Linux 2.6.38-rc6

Hmm. Another week, another -rc. This one has the fix for the rather annoying (but also very rare) memory corruption that we were battling for a couple of weeks - but since I suspect only two people ever saw it, I doubt most of you care. It was a big ...

Message posted on the February 21st, 2011 - 8:50 PM ET

Blank Video Display

Hi, When I now turn on my 5 year old Dell Latitude D800 the screen is blank, there are no beeps, but the hard drive light flashes for 10 seconds or so. I placed the hard drive in another dell laptop to try to boot from it, I got a display this ...

Message posted on the January 31st, 2009 - 3:16 AM ET

[00/70] 2.6.39.4-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.39.4 release. Note, barring anything extremely unusual, this will be the LAST 2.6.39.y kernel release. Everyone should be moving to the 3.0 kernel soon. There are 70 patches in this series, ...

Message posted on the August 1st, 2011 - 7:30 PM ET

Installing XP over Linux

I am trying to install Windows XP on a Dell laptop that currently has Linux Ubuntu installed. After booting up with the Windows CD in the drive, it loads various Windows files, but eventually stops on a blue screen message advising me to run ...

Message posted on the June 16th, 2010 - 7:18 PM ET

Installing XP over Linux

I am trying to install Windows XP on a Dell laptop that currently has Linux Ubuntu installed. After booting up with the Windows CD in the drive, it loads various Windows files, but eventually stops on a blue screen message advising me to run ...

Message posted on the June 16th, 2010 - 7:18 PM ET

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