{"id":588,"date":"2010-04-30T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:54:14","slug":"linux-to-the-rescue-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/linux-to-the-rescue-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux to the Rescue (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My secretary’s machine blue-screened<\/a> a couple of days ago with a STOP 24<\/a> message, which tells you (or rather, doesn’t tell you) that either the disk or the filesystem is broken.<\/p>\n

\"Crash<\/a><\/div>\n

Fortunately(!) we’d just gone through a couple of weeks restoring everything after a virus infestation, so there wasn’t much on it of value, except for the Quicken bookkeeping data.<\/p>\n

I spent awhile learning about Windows recovery disks, and made a WinPE disk<\/a> that I ought to have been able to boot off. But for whatever reason, I couldn’t, and — honestly — I don’t have time to figure out how to route around Microsoft stupidity.<\/p>\n

Today, finally, I had a half hour to spare, so I extracted the hard drive from the Windows box, slapped it into an external USB housing, and connected it to my linux backup server. (Elapsed time: about 10 minutes. That’s too long, but I didn’t have a good phillips screwdriver and had to use my leatherman<\/a>. Also I was flummoxed briefly by the easy-to-open case on the Dell Dimension 3000<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Sadly, it didn’t automount on my desktop. I run Ubuntu<\/a> 9.10, and have become accustomed to it “just working” no matter what I need doing. But apparently support for NTFS USB drives doesn’t come in the out-of-box configuration.<\/p>\n

No matter. I hit the internet (specifically, I did a single Google search for “ubuntu external drive ntfs<\/a>“) and found out I needed to install ntfs-config<\/a>. The search and subsequent installation took about 2 minutes. I cycled the power on the external drive, and — voila! — there was the drive. I popped into terminal, ran a quick find|cpio<\/tt>, and Bob’s your uncle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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